All Groan Up with Paul Angone
Your 20s and 30s are hard. And incredibly important. In each episode, best-selling author Paul Angone tackles a secret, a question, or a lie that is holding twenty and thirtysomethings back. All with HEART, HOPE, and HUMOR.
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If you're going through a full-blown quarter-life crisis or if you could just use some encouragement, inspiration, and insight in navigating your twenties and thirties, the All Groan Up podcast is here for you. You're not alone. Fun, story-driven, uplifting, and quick! Get insight and encouragement to get unstuck and own your defining decade.
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Podcast host Paul Angone is the author of best-selling books like "101 Secrets For Your Twenties", his newest book "25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing", and the creator of AllGroanUp.com, which has been read by millions in 190 countries.
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Welcome home to the podcast for twentysomethings and thirtysomethings navigating this Groan Up life. Find more goodness at allgroanup.com. Music produced by White Hot at FreeBeats.io
All Groan Up with Paul Angone
"I Deserve to Be Happy" (and why that's a lie)
What if our pursuit of happiness is all wrong?
What if our pursuit of happiness is the exact thing that's keeping us most unhappy?
Here’s what I think is the truth: The more we pursue happiness, the less happy we’re going to be.
Is happiness a product we should pursue?
Or is happiness a product of something else? Can we seek happiness unto itself? Or is happiness a natural byproduct when we’re pursuing something else meaningful?
When we pursue happiness unto itself we end up merely pursuing a distraction from our unhappiness.
When we pursue being happy we usually come back feeling more miserable than before. Like going on that epic road trip to find happiness, only to return, and having more problems there waiting for you than when you started.
I do want you to be happy. So stop pursuing it. Instead, pursue these things instead.
Find a consistent spring of life rather than trying to drink from the dried-up creek of happiness.
Read more about this in my new book 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing.