Why So Many People Are Unhappy | Bertrand Russell's Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1

Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Chapter 1 in plain English: what makes people unhappy, and why the way out is to look outward. ▶ Next: Chapter 2 – Byronic Unhappiness (coming soon) Part of our new The Conquest of Happiness series. CHAPTERS 0:00 Your cat is happier than you 0:29 Who was Bertrand Russell? 0:54 Count your happy friends 1:24 The weekday crowd 1:49 The weekend traffic jam 2:16 The forced party 2:34 Wrong ideas and bad habits 3:08 "I was not born happy" 4:08 Three trapped types 5:33 Is unhappiness a choice? 5:53 Four lessons for today In this video: • Why most unhappiness comes from ideas and habits we can change • Russell's own story of becoming happier with age • The sinner, the narcissist and the megalomaniac • Why thinking less about yourself makes life lighter Quotes from Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1930). Ages of Ink: we read the greatest books, one chapter at a time, in plain English.