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Steven Pollan, author of the book, It's All In Your Head…

It's not created by having money, it's not created by having a successful job, it's not created by having the new car, the second home. What we do is we confound or confuse pleasure with happiness. All the other things, look, I'm in favor of and I enjoy them and you know I'm sure you do too whenever you can. But they give you pleasure they do not give you happiness.

Steven is an attorney financial advisor and coach who's had hundreds of clients.

A lot of whom were quite successful and you know, they had the second car and they had the three-car garage and they had the box seats at the Philharmonic, yet they were not happy. Because in the case of many of them, it's what's next, or why am I not more like so and so?

Steven says people who are truly happy share some very specific attitudes.

One is you're just where you're supposed to be. What that means, is you're unique, you're a custom job, you do not compare yourself with anybody.

So, if happiness is not pleasure, what is it?

It starts with being peaceful and then it develops from there-happiness, you know, I can use another word, joy.

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