Being Worthy Of Happiness – John Yokela Brishon Martin part 2 – Ayn Rand Hero

Show Notes

03:00 – Discussing the ego as an ‘organism’

05:00 – Why we experience happiness with a coherent story of reality

10:00 – How you experience “contradictions” reveals something critical about your standards

12:00 – Your stories about your experience are ‘power tools’ – learn to use them well

15:00 – Why goals always create obstacles, and what to do about it

20:00 – What Atlas Shrugged reveals about the nature of contracts between individuals

34:00 – Emotions are Messengers and Motivators

40:00 – Avoiding painful situations doesn’t work – here’s what to do instead

45:00 – Learning to define what “good” is – and why that matters

01:00:00 – Being ‘worthy’ of happiness vs being ‘capable’ of happiness, and what that means for your life

01:12:00 – Rand’s definition of happiness as a state of ‘non-contradictory joy”