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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Released Monday, 20th February 2023
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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Monday, 20th February 2023
 1 person rated this episode
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Question everything... that's a key insight from the great Greek philosopher Socrates. We may think we know ourselves and what makes us happy... but that's not always true. 

Yale professor Tamar Gendler says that by harnessing our "inner Socrates" we can ask ourselves why we think or feel certain things. We might then find that deeply-held convictions that money or status or accolades are a reliable route to happiness aren't correct, and can then start to pursue the things that might really make us happier.  

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