Comments on: The Pursuit of Happiness is flawed… http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/ Adam Gilbert's Entertaining Ideas on Business, Fitness, and Life... Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:47:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Guru Gilbert » The worst word in the English Language http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 Guru Gilbert » The worst word in the English Language Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:18:46 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-1052 [...] evil antithesis of ambition. And I certainly don’t want to spend my life pursuing happiness. After all, that is flawed! Happiness is right here, right [...] [...] evil antithesis of ambition. And I certainly don’t want to spend my life pursuing happiness. After all, that is flawed! Happiness is right here, right [...]

]]> By: Guru Gilbert » Lessons from the happiest 81 year old waitress I’ve ever met http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Guru Gilbert » Lessons from the happiest 81 year old waitress I’ve ever met Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:07:42 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-337 [...] I also believe that the pursuit of happiness is flawed. True sustained happiness can only come from with in. [...] [...] I also believe that the pursuit of happiness is flawed. True sustained happiness can only come from with in. [...]

]]> By: Adam Gilbert http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Adam Gilbert Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:49:21 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-336 I think Eric and Adam said it best. My point is that if you aren't happy by yourself...just being you...then all of the success in the world (and what that can afford you) is going to mean nothing. It'll never be fulfilling. Thanks for your awesome input guys! -Adam I think Eric and Adam said it best.

My point is that if you aren’t happy by yourself…just being you…then all of the success in the world (and what that can afford you) is going to mean nothing. It’ll never be fulfilling.

Thanks for your awesome input guys!

-Adam

]]> By: Adam McFarland http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Adam McFarland Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:50:52 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-335 Adam, You're dead on here. You can be perfectly happy in your situation now and love and appreciate life, while still pushing to be the best at something (business) and live life to the fullest every day. The two are not mutually exclusive, and being happy doesn't de-motivate you from achieving anything. Adam Adam,

You’re dead on here. You can be perfectly happy in your situation now and love and appreciate life, while still pushing to be the best at something (business) and live life to the fullest every day. The two are not mutually exclusive, and being happy doesn’t de-motivate you from achieving anything.

Adam

]]> By: Eric Patrick Marr http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Eric Patrick Marr Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:03:51 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-334 Lara, I think you might be very slightly misinterpreting Adam's words. You are absolutely right, I'm sure accepting the status quo isn't at all what Adam subscribes to, in any capacity whatsoever. Happiness (or "fulfillment" as I sometimes like to call it) doesn't come from chasing externalities, it comes from creating, or transforming our internal dreams into external realities. Entrepreneurs, or regular-job-havers for that matter, who do things "to get" are never happy (just look around us.) But people who create for the sake of creating, out of the abundance of their hearts, THEY are genuinely happy when doing so. As the orange seed shows us, and as Adam said, happiness comes from one thing, from our hearts, from within. Life only originates from within. Even WE originated from within, physically speaking!!! So it's not that you don't DO things, it's just that your motivation is fundamentally different. We DO because our insides DESIRE to do, likely for the sake of making lives better. We don't DO to get, we DO to give. And there is an infinite market segment in this business arena, as EVERYONE continuously desires to have their lives bettered! So business is always available on this wavelength! Not trying to be cliche, which I'm sure this sounds like, but when one really experiences that feeling of putting your whole heart, soul and life into something, it doesn't matter if you're doing it for free, it just ROCKS!!! It is Life's Force, the timeless energy of Love, that creates happiness, and nothing else. I think this is what Adam was getting at! And if this is the Lara from Tampa, then do I know you??? Love you all so much, Eric Patrick Marr Lara,

I think you might be very slightly misinterpreting Adam’s words. You are absolutely right, I’m sure accepting the status quo isn’t at all what Adam subscribes to, in any capacity whatsoever.

Happiness (or “fulfillment” as I sometimes like to call it) doesn’t come from chasing externalities, it comes from creating, or transforming our internal dreams into external realities. Entrepreneurs, or regular-job-havers for that matter, who do things “to get” are never happy (just look around us.) But people who create for the sake of creating, out of the abundance of their hearts, THEY are genuinely happy when doing so.

As the orange seed shows us, and as Adam said, happiness comes from one thing, from our hearts, from within. Life only originates from within. Even WE originated from within, physically speaking!!!

So it’s not that you don’t DO things, it’s just that your motivation is fundamentally different. We DO because our insides DESIRE to do, likely for the sake of making lives better. We don’t DO to get, we DO to give. And there is an infinite market segment in this business arena, as EVERYONE continuously desires to have their lives bettered! So business is always available on this wavelength!

Not trying to be cliche, which I’m sure this sounds like, but when one really experiences that feeling of putting your whole heart, soul and life into something, it doesn’t matter if you’re doing it for free, it just ROCKS!!! It is Life’s Force, the timeless energy of Love, that creates happiness, and nothing else.

I think this is what Adam was getting at! And if this is the Lara from Tampa, then do I know you???

Love you all so much,
Eric Patrick Marr

]]> By: Willy http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Willy Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:08:43 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-333 Guru - I reread this twice and I couldn’t agree more. I look at my friends in Corporate America and their entire life is based on, “I’ll be happy when I… or, “Once I get that raise…” But I also look at my friends who are entrepreneurs and they do the same thing. What to do? I do understand what you mean about constantly chasing happiness though… Guru – I reread this twice and I couldn’t agree more. I look at my friends in Corporate America and their entire life is based on, “I’ll be happy when I… or, “Once I get that raise…”

But I also look at my friends who are entrepreneurs and they do the same thing.

What to do? I do understand what you mean about constantly chasing happiness though…

]]> By: Lara http://www.gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Lara Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:04:15 +0000 http://gurugilbert.com/2008/02/05/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-flawed-and-why-you-aren%e2%80%99t-as-happy-as-you-can-be/#comment-332 Adam, I've been reading your blog for quite sometime now and I, too, find the subject of happiness fascinating. However, I am shocked that an entrepreneur like yourself who has accomplished so many things at such a young age and who is obviously ridiculously ambitious would think like this. I find it almost hypocritical because an entrepreneur is always chasing that next client, or that next, partnership, etc. An entrepreneur like yourself who quit Ernst & Young clearly is never happy with the status quo. Just my opinion. Thought I'd share. Adam,

I’ve been reading your blog for quite sometime now and I, too, find the subject of happiness fascinating.

However, I am shocked that an entrepreneur like yourself who has accomplished so many things at such a young age and who is obviously ridiculously ambitious would think like this.

I find it almost hypocritical because an entrepreneur is always chasing that next client, or that next, partnership, etc. An entrepreneur like yourself who quit Ernst & Young clearly is never happy with the status quo.

Just my opinion. Thought I’d share.

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