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/> Tommy Mello does $410 million a year and admits he is still chasing the next thing. Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course in Harvard's history, built the world's first master's and PhD in happiness studies, and won Israel's national squash title at 16 only to feel nothing three hours later. Together they break down the arrival fallacy that runs every entrepreneur, why happier companies post better margins, the SPIRE model, minimum viable interventions you can do in 60 seconds, why New Year's resolutions die by January 17, the phone-in-a-box rule, the accountability buddy that raises follow-through by 200 percent, the good enough life, and what it means to give yourself permission to be human.
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- Introduction
- The unhappiness that started 30 years of research
- National champion at 16, satisfied for three hours
- What is the arrival fallacy?
- Unhappy versus depressed and quiet desperation
- Enough is never enough and the $3 billion regret
- Two schools of thought and turning goal theory on its head
- SPIRE: the five elements of wellbeing
- Minimum viable interventions
- Five things you can do in the next 60 seconds
- Vision boards and the environment that primes you
- The six-week challenge and why resolutions die on January 17
- Keystone habits and islands of sanity
- Would you sleep next to a bottle of whiskey?
- Habits belong on the calendar
- The age of distraction and being bored with dignity
- Zero startup cost and the 200 percent accountability buddy
- Commitment bracelets and the letter N
- Stress is fine, recovery is what's missing
- Does happiness lead to success or the other way around?
- Six Fs, balance and fitting 48 hours into 24
- Wearables, step counts and building happiness into a blue collar culture
- Speed round: the biggest misconception high achievers have
- Live every day as if it's your first
- Rate it 1 to 10: cold plunge, sauna, sleep and reading
- Permission to be human
- Learn to fail or fail to learn
- Advice for your 20s and the 90-minute sprint
- $10 million and the Happiness Studies Academy
- Five books, one for each SPIRE element
- How to reach Tal and his closing message
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