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OK, before you kick me to the curb and tell me you want to be happy, hear me out.  I don't want you to be miserable.  But I also don't think life is simply about being happy. In fact, that assumption is often what leads people to some pretty bad places of addiction, consumption, debt, unhealthy behavior -- and unhappiness. So many times, people have said to me that they are guaranteed happiness in the Declaration of Independence.  I first remind them that they are given the "unalienable right" to the "pursuit of happiness."  Not to be happy. Second, I point out that our founding fathers did not have the same idea of "happy" that we seem to find in popular culture.  Their idea was a bit deeper -- and tightly tied to the Greek idea of Eudaemonia, a term that was about living a life of virtue a "Good Life." Let me say again, I do not think life is about being unhappy or miserable.  But I tend to think the more we chase happiness, the more it eludes us.  Because life isn't really about happiness. Listen belo