What is Happiness?

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Spanish Subtitles by Marcial Machado
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Music courtesy of Musicbed and Epidemic Sound.

[schodes]

hey you, i see you. watch the video and stay out of the comments.

“There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder
and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.” ― JOSEPH CAMPBELL

[bryanjiang]

Holy hell, 46 minutes of pure quality. Way to raise the bar!

[daniel_netzel]

I mean, I was already expecting greatness, but this blew me away. Truly cannot imagine the time and effort that must have gone into this, and cannot express enough how incredible of a job you've done. Like, there's the geek in me that's absolutely astounded by your editing and animation in this video, and just knowing how even one second of this video likely meant an entire day's worth of work, but what you've done here is really special for so many other reasons. Presentation aside, which seriously, **chefs kiss** you're looking into what honestly might be the most important issue of anyone's lifetime. We get caught up in a million different things, and everyone has different goals or values but it all does fall under the umbrella of happiness. It's just universally, objectively the thing we should all be after and yet so many of us struggle with it so frequently, I know I do. I feel like I've already learned something of value, and I can't wait to sit down with this again and sponge everything up. Thank you for diving into this for the rest of us, you're honestly doing such a great thing here. Can't wait for the rest of the series, 11/10 A +++ video dude.

[michabrugger]

Dear Will. I've come back to this video (and series) time and time again over the past 2 years. Unfortunately, they have not been as much of a "commercial" success as some of your other pieces. I imagine they might be a bit too long and in some ways too densely packed with information for some people out there. There is no real fairness or logic to this and given the incredible amount of work that must have gone into these pieces, I can only imagine how much this might hurt you.

This series has been one of the most impactful pieces of content I've ever stumbled upon and your way of thinking, talking and sharing your knowledge has been a fundamental source of inspiration and guidance over the past years and I would not be the human being I am today without it. So, no matter where you are or what your doing right now, I wish you all the happiness in the world. If you ever doubt yourself, I want you to know that you've truly changed my life and that of many of my close-one's for the better. Thank you!

[Jaumiusk]

Unbelievable production value, organization, and ideas in here WIll. Hope this blows up!

[josephwagner]

My tabs are closed, my phone is away, I am ready

[AcolytesOfHorror]

The sheer density of value and mature presentation blows just about everything else on Youtube out of the water. Congratulations on making some truly impactful art

[shamirgeorge]

Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
4:26 Chapter 1 What is Happiness?
7:21 I. The Three Theories
7:25 Theory 1: Life Satisfaction
12:08 Theory 2: Hedonism
14:51 Theory 3: Emotional State Theory
19:33 Endorsement
20:55 Engagement
24:10 Attunement
28:38 Three-State Recap
29:39 Mood Propensitiesc
31:47 II. Choosing a Theory
34:23 III. How Happy is Happy?
37:16 IV. How Important is Happiness?
44:17 Credits

[misteramazing]

This video is an accomplishment - damn near something that could be published in a journal. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series.

[danthomas]

You should consider an audible version of this via podcast or a podcast in general. I would definitely listen. Great work.

[tommyguy]

This really made me start thinking about analyzing my happiness instead of just checking in with it. Thanks! Great vid

[zakshah]

"Happiness" is finally being able to watch another one of your videos after so long.
The immediate sense I got from the video was just how pervasive Dan Haybron's work has really gone with its analysis of both past flaws in philosophy and the ever-changing definitions of "happiness". Surely, the man in 1820 might have had different *activities* to preoccupy themselves with, but in the more real sense, he's still like us.
I think your opening argument for the vast confusion as to what most people "believe" is happiness was a great choice. Even after watching the teaser for this video series, I was stumped to try and find an answer. I hazard to guess what the next 13 episodes could possibly offer compared to the enormity that this first episode demonstrated, and I that excites me.
With regards to the synergy of Attunement, Engagement, and Endorsement, I remember reading James Clear's Atomic Habits, and his elaboration on the idea that in order to change *habits*, we had to change our *identity*. He used three concentric circles, with an arrow point towards the center and another pointing outward from the center. His principle was that in order to change our outermost actions (ie habits), we would have to "identity" as someone who acted in such a manner (ie the inner circle). The example he gave was that, in order to quit smoking, identify as a nonsmoker, and your actions subsequently exude the actions of one. He noted the difficulty in actually changing one's identity as the main hurdle we should focus on, and the need for actions being the driving force for identity change, which begs the question, does that dilemma also apply to the synergy of changing one's Attunement?
I smiled through the entire video. As someone who has gone through an existential crisis, the question of happiness is one that can draw curtains over taking steps forward. Somehow, I felt like I was watching this video in that state of mind, returning to a previous tumultuous moment in life when things were hard, and now, finally getting an answer to what bugged me. Thank you Will Schoder.

[_bit]

for so goddamn long I've been trying to figure out why I've been fundamentally unhappy and I think this is the first framework I've seen that thoroughly accounts for whatever I've felt

[justafellowmortal]

It's been a long time since I watched a video in 1x speed, this is the BEST documentary I have ever watched and the only that made me actually take notes, thank you

[Rawi]

I watched the video in one sitting man. I have severe adhd so damn, you really struck a tune there. Your videos are inspiring man. Thank you.

[qkqk]

I was part of the "tiling the universe with heroin rats" camp but this kinda challenged my convictions! You really outdid yourself with the writing and graphic design here!
Looking forward to the sociology episode

[martinspoonerkingjr.]

You're an inspiration. To write and direct and animate something of this scale, with such passion. I could almost see all the scales you described of happiness manifest themselves in this single video. You should be happy, proud, of this amazing video. Till the next one.

[lonzoarg]

You did something for humanity here. Im from argentina south america, and this comes right in time in my life. Thnks, hope good fortune comes to you for this amazing work and wish u a robust happiness

[officialsquadrilogystudio]

YouTube's Biggest crimes:
4:) Promoting low quality Entertainment
3:) Corporate Pandering
2:) not defending Fair use

1.) not getting this video on trending.

[johnnymadrid]

God I don't know how many times I've watched this, but it rings more and more true everytime