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Title	Description	People	Date
Part 5: Why be happy when you can be real?	Here we pull everything together. Living fully and meaningfully is greater than happiness. At what cost do we chase and try to own happiness?	Tim Knowlson	8 January, 2026
Part 4: The Matryoshka Doll - is it really happiness or something else?	Tim tries to unpack the word happiness using the metaphor of the Matryoshka Doll, and wonders how it connects to the state of our world and the transience of experience.	Tim Knowlson	8 January, 2026
Part 3: I’m a tourist in my own life	We think about moving from spectator to actor in our own lives, away from autopilot using values and goals.	Tim Knowlson	8 January, 2026
Part 2: How do we even define happiness? Stories of the mind and the secret director	Tim tries to define happiness and fails badly doing so. Sometimes definitions are confusing and need to be treated flexibly. Happiness as a label might not be so useful and is very contextual.	Tim Knowlson	8 January, 2026
Part 1: Introduction	This part sets the scene and manages expectations. It introduces attention to the mind and mindset. There’s a warning about multi-tasking and treadmills.	Tim Knowlson	8 January, 2026

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