4 Rules for Achieving Happiness

You don’t need to be happy every second. That’s just the meat computer in your head. February 26, 2021 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] [Warning] Do you enjoy receiving Altucher Confidential? Please [Click Here Now]( so we know to continue sending you Altucher Confidential for free! “You don’t need to be happy every second. That’s just the meat computer in your head..” [hero image] 4 Rules for Achieving Happiness By James Altucher [External Advertisement] No. 1 Stock for America’s Revival [American Flag Sunset]( $51 trillion recovery will be of unheard magnitude. Only it’s not from a single thing the government is doing. Or even from big corporations. Instead, it’s due to one tiny pioneering American company. You won’t believe what this made-in-America device does. It could create more millionaires over the next decade than pot stocks, cryptos and Big Tech — combined! [Click here for the full story.]( This morning I was very unhappy. I couldn’t get things done. My mind was bouncing like in a pinball machine. And I hated people in my head. Hated them! First, I was thinking of at least two people who had wronged me in the past few months. I kept thinking, “But I did X, Y, and Z for them!” How dare they?! And yet… they treated me horribly and I put up with it. I kept thinking in my head of the scoreboard. I did this, they did that, I did this, but then they did THAT. And the scoreboard added up to me winning. And that led to 4 rules of happiness: Rule #1: NO SCOREBOARD. [Scoreboard] Catch yourself thinking of the scoreboard and then try to think of other ways to look at it. Person #1: We moved in different directions. Everything happened for the best. Person #2: I don’t really understand what happened but he is not the friend I thought he was so it’s all for the best. The “scoreboard” is the enemy to happiness. Then I was unhappy about something else. I wasn’t getting invited to speak at an event I’m usually invited to. Why not? Why the hell not?! I could ask. I could try to get invited. But I don’t really want to go anyway. So it’s a status thing. I want people to like me. I want people to think I have enough status that they invite me to their events. World’s second-richest man’s NEW world-changing disruption [Disrupt Clock]( 1997, a relatively unknown man disrupted the retail industry. Today, as the world’s second-richest man, he is all set to disrupt another $2 trillion industry. If you missed taking advantage of the retail disruption... Don’t miss this! You can get the full story right [here]( packed with aerial images, important dates, and even rare patent pics To see how this NEW disruption, can help you make a small fortune, [Click here.]( Rule #2: FIGURE OUT IF YOUR UNHAPPINESS IS DUE TO STATUS. [M. Ali] If yes, then focus on building skills and improving than trying to change someone’s opinion of you. So I write. I have ideas. I read. I make calls that improve my opportunities. I try to improve myself instead of improving someone’s image of me. For the third time this morning I was unhappy. I wanted to write but instead I got sidetracked. I tracked down a third cousin of mine via 23andMe. And then we both had fun linking up family trees to find out how we were fully related. I had never done that before. I had always assumed all the genealogy stuff was BS and I still think it is. And yet… it was fun to hear this woman’s stories about my great-grandfather from 1940. Why should I care? I don’t know. But it made me happy. Rule #3: IF PROCRASTINATING, FIND OUT THE REASON. IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY, INDULGE. Indulging in what you love = material for writing. Writing later about this will make me happy. Procrastination is a basic human need. We didn’t have “to-do” lists 70,000 years ago. We did what our heart was pointing us towards. If we were hungry, we ate. If we needed to hunt, we hunted. If we needed to run, we ran! At one point when everything was whirring around in my head, I was most unhappy. Sometimes things are going wrong in our mind and bodies FIRST, and then our minds build stories to fill that unhappiness in. For me, last night I didn’t sleep as much as I used to. And my brain is a bit fried from non-stop work over the past few months. So my brain started over-reacting to all of these slight insults and pains. Rule #4: IT’S A CLICHE BUT IT’S REALLY TRUE. NOTHING MATTERS. If you are unhappy and stressed then you certainly won’t be of use to the people around you who you love. So I took a deep breath and I pictured that I was an alien from another dimension. I close my eyes and then open them. Who is this body and this mind? Why is he thinking these meaningless thoughts that seem to be causing him some pain? I have a mission. To calm this body down and do some good today. And then I am gone tomorrow. On another, intergalactic, interdimensional mission. I am a multi-dimensional, multi-verse superhero, on missions for billions of years and this is just one of them. [Superman] Happiness is a bag of chemicals. Some serotonin, some endorphin, some dopamine, reduced cortisol, some oxytocin. You don’t need to be happy every second. That’s just the meat computer in your head. Don’t be a software program. Be the programmer. You’re on a mission. Get it done. Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher Warning: Financial Extinction Event Imminent [Economic Outlook]( April 14th, 2021, a seismic event is expected to send our financial system into a devastating tailspin. At this point, there’s nothing the Federal Reserve, the government or even the President can do to stop it… If you’re not prepared for what’s coming, you should do so now. 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