The Conquest of Happiness
07/22/20 • 30 min
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell. Jay picks a book but will it make Phil happy? I mean really? Does a 90 year old book still carry any meaning in today's world?
What does a man who was married three times, imprisoned twice and known more for his work in mathematics, have to tell us about achieving happiness in our day to day living?
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Jay and Phil
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell. Jay picks a book but will it make Phil happy? I mean really? Does a 90 year old book still carry any meaning in today's world?
What does a man who was married three times, imprisoned twice and known more for his work in mathematics, have to tell us about achieving happiness in our day to day living?
Enjoying the show? Have some feedback on one of our shows? Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/Dog-eared-and-Cracked-112028897241197 and share your thoughts.
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Jay and Phil
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Dog-eared and Cracked - The Conquest of Happiness
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PHIL [00:00:01] "I shall therefore assume that the reader would rather be happy than unhappy. Whether I can help him to realise this wish, I do not know. But at any rate, the attempt can do no harm."
JAY [00:00:24] Welcome to Dog-eared and Cracked, the podcast where we each recommend a book for the other and then play literary critic. Our tastes widely differ, so some of our postmortems may be replete with vacuous silences and frictional argument. Some
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