Dr. David Lieberman: The Psychology of Happiness - Project Inspire Convention 2016

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The opening of this shiur, in Dr. David Lieberman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

me know. I'd like for you to know before we begin that um some time ago I was in Muny and I was speaking at Shabaton and they asked me to introduce myself and I said I'm a little uncomfortable introducing myself but they said you know we don't have anyone to introduce the speaker. I'm sorry. So they asked me if one of my kids would do it. So I asked one of my kids thinking not in a zillion years they would. And one of them stepped up to the plate, introduced me and he's been doing it ever since. So with your permission, I would like to ask Aron Shim to introduce me and then I'll begin speaking. You want to stand in a chair? What? Want to stand on the chair? Sure. Okay. [Applause] Go ahead. Go ahead, Dr. Billy women is an incredible speaker and award-winning author with a renowned insight to the human condition book which have been translated into 26 languages and included to your time best sellers have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. [Applause] Ah gosh delicious. All righty. So, I'd like to make these talks as practical and useful as possible as we move along. If you have any questions, comments, thoughts, anything is on your mind, feel free to fire away. Anything except home improvement, as my wife will acknowledge, uh, it's not my forte. Let's start with the following question. Why do we care if somebody's rude to us? Somebody embarrasses us, somebody tells sit down, be quiet,

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1. 0:30me know. I'd like for you to know before we begin that um some time ago…
2. 3:48We're wired to like who we are. The million-dollar question is, where does a person go…
3. 7:26don't like me very much, where then am I turning to feel good about myself? If…
4. 11:02happy. It allows for us to be sane. And let me explain why. The med says…
5. 14:11and she said and my wife always tells me you know when you see their tears…
6. 17:56regular Tylenol does not do? Nothing. Well, no. Good guess, but it does something. What's that?…
7. 21:36In 120 plus years our soul and ashama will separate from the body that the next…
8. 24:43that says spirituality here, physicality here. No, we say take the physical, infuse it with spirituality…
9. 28:25because I appreciate all I have. And gratitude is intimately linked with what emotion. Ah sima…
10. 32:12Who here can tell me the striking distinction between the Torah definition and the rest the…

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