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So we're doing the Tate speech on the road today because I've got some work to do. I can't just spend my time spreading wisdom to you motherfuckers for free. With my measly 3,000 subscribers. I ain't making no money from this shit. I'm just fixing the world because I'm a philanthropist. I'm a kind guy. Today we're going to talk about happiness. People say to me all the time, Tate, what's the secret to being happy?
What's the secret to being happy? I've got a unique theory on happiness. My theory on happiness is as follows.
I'm not a physicist, but I remember from
physics which I did at college level I didn't do at the university level but they said that in a scientific term
There's not really such thing as cold.
Cold is just a lack of heat.
He...
has a scientific... you can observe heat scientifically. The atoms move or things jitter or whatever and heat is generated, but cold isn't a thing. Cold is just a lack of heat.
And for that perspective, when people say to me, "Tate, how do you be happy?" I try to explain to them,
happiness isn't a thing in my view happiness is just a lack of grief as cold is just a lack of heat
And I say this to people, they look at me like, "Oh, what are we talking about?" or, "Well, that's not true because I don't feel happy." We are not children anymore.
We're grown-ups and grown-ups have responsibilities and stresses and things are on our shoulders.
When you say you want to be happy, what you're saying is you want to feel like you did when you were two years old.
and you're giving those jelly beans, and you were staying up late, and you had no fucking worries in the world. That ain't gonna happen.
Unless you literally crack billionaire status, and even if you do,
Depending on the country you're in, if you're in Saudi Arabia or Russia or whatever, most of these billionaires end up in jail anyway for one reason or another politically motivated shit.
You're a fucking grown up. You are never gonna have a life.
that's that carefree, that Giddish happiness, that childish happiness you felt inside when you were a child,
is specifically that. It's childish happiness. Happiness for grown-ups.
Doesn't work that way. Happiness for grownups is an absolute lack of grief. And when I say this, people go, "Oh yeah, but I'm sad." You ain't sad, motherfucker.
You ain't sad. Imagine the worst thing that could happen to you. Imagine your entire family's in a car, and they get in a car crash in the M1, and they all die. Your wife, your parents, your siblings, all of them die at once.
That's the worst thing that could happen to you. How's that happened today?
And if you're watching this video and go, "No, that hasn't happened today."
then you're fucking happy.
Because you're not grief stricken
You're not completely breaking down in tears in a state of mind where you cannot imagine life ever being the same again. So if you don't feel that way, you are happy. You're just not as happy as you imagined yourself to be as a kid because you're a fucking immature moron.
Like everything else in life, happiness is a sliding scale. You're trying to attain a happiness which you're only gonna attain two or three times in your adult life.
So I've won four kickboxing world titles.
Each time I won one of them,
I felt that childish type happiness.
When I made my first million, I felt that childish type happiness.
When I made my tenth million, I felt that childish like happiness. But in general, besides very, very key events, you're not going to feel that happy
every fucking day.
It would be abnormal for you to feel that happy every day.
And the reason people are taking these antidepressants and going through life making up this complete garbage saying that depression's a thing when it isn't
is because they're trying to find a level of happiness which you are not programmed to experience.
every fucking day.
if you are not grief stricken
If you are not in a state of mind where you are literally, literally
don't know how to go forward. If there's not tears running from your eyes,
then you're a happy person.
- Yeah.
Because happiness, like absolutely everything else, is subjective and it's down to your perception of happiness.
I say this all the time.
There's a really interesting thing on YouTube you can watch about colors, and there's a tribe in Africa
which view color completely different to us.
So when we say something's brown, we say something's blue.
It's an actual real interesting documentary, I'll try and find it and link it in this video, about how language affects
how we see
because to them,
two very similar shades of blue.
And I say, I mean very similar. Like I would struggle to decipher between the two. To them, they have different names. So because they have different names, for them it's very easy to see. As easy as black and white, these two different shades of blue. Whereas to me, it's just different, slightly different turquoise.
And it's exactly the same as anything else. How you perceive things
It's how they end up viewing.
You view yourself as unhappy when you're unhappy. If you view yourself as happy, if you understand, "Well, I'm not grief-stricken, so I'm a happy person."
and you start to understand that happiness is something you can perceive and you can set the boundaries of.
You're setting the boundaries of happiness at the absolute top of that childish, giddy, giggle bullshit.
What you need to do is extend those boundaries and understand that anything above grief
is happiness.
People say to me, "Tate, how are you happy?" I'm happy because I'm not grief-strength. I'm happy because today none of my family members have died.
Both of my arms and both of my legs are still here.
We're pushing around this Bentley.
this fucking cement truck
right in front of us
could come and crash into the side of me and take out my fucking one of my arms.
then I'd be unhappy.
But right now, both my arms are working.
My family members are alive. I'm just gonna pass this cement truck quickly, before anything bad happens. I have nothing to be fucking sad about. And if you're gonna pretend, if you're not smart enough to be able to look at your life and say, "My life is not as bad as it could be."
I'm not in cereal with no legs and dead family and no food to eat.
I'm not, my life is not over. My life is okay. If you should be able to look at your life like that and be happy, and that's a sign of intelligence. If you refuse to do that,
then you're either low IQ
extremely selfish or most likely an attention-seeking moron because we live in a world
where people find the easiest way to get attention is to invent ailments.
Oh, poor me, I'm depressed.
Fuck off.
The key to being happiness is to decide you're happy.
That's the key to being happy. So anyone, I'm going to make this video because I get asked all the time, "Tay, were you happy before you had money?"
you
Am I happier now I have money? Probably a bit.
But that's not what it's about. I've always been happy my entire fucking life because I decided.
to be happy.
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