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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: Happiness: Inherent or Acquired?
Description: Can every one be happy? The way some people describe their negativity and even hopelessness, you would think that not everybody is blessed with the capacity to be happy? But that is not true. Happiness seems to be inherent to the human condition. Look at children. They are naturally happy people. Buoyant and enthusiastic. So then, how do happy children become sad adults? When and how do they lose their positivity? How do calm children become anxious adults? And how can we retrace the steps and reclaim our inherent joy?
The answer to these questions carries the...