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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: Just Dance: How to Fake it Till You Make it - Escaping Loneliness and Depression
Description: Happiness is as elusive as it is cherished. We all want to be happy. Joyous people are healthier and more productive. And yet, it seems so challenging to find inner joy, especially in trying circumstances. Is there a formula for happiness? Perhaps we have to begin with the questions: What exactly is happiness? And how can we acquire it?
John Stuart Mill famously said: "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." "Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on...