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9 The Gift The Happiness Effect

Exploring Tomorrow · February 5, 1958 · 19 min · 2,735 words

The transcript of “9 The Gift The Happiness Effect”, an episode of Exploring Tomorrow first broadcast February 5, 1958. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Exploring Tomorrow plays Exploring Tomorrow free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now step into the incredible, amazing future. As we go, exploring tomorrow. Here is your guide to these adventures of the mind, John Campbell Jr. As the old saying, you'll do it and like it.

And of course a man can, by a physical force, make you do it. How would you like to have it so that you wouldn't like it too? There are two basic ways that you can be happy in this world.

One of course is to have everything you want in just the way you want it and never have any difficulties or troubles. This method is ideal perhaps, but not very probable. Only one person in the world could have that I guess.

The other method for absolute complete happiness would be to like anything that you got no matter what it was. The first approach is the one that makes sense, of course, as the one we work for.

We earn it. The other seems so much easier. I'm about to sum up my mind, cut all creams up in the happiness effect, and I'm not so anymore.

I guess most everybody in the country is just like me. We've all had a problem. Here he comes. Our own Doc Roy and the man responsible for all our happiness. He's supposed to be just about the best brain right of the side of the Mississippi.

Slavo that's what I call him old Westlips always do good no he's Brennan but behind that grind bleed me ice If you need an enemy just have Doc Royden for a friend. Hey, hey, didn't you hear me calling to you? Oh, sorry Doc I guess I just kind of stand here thinking happy thoughts. I hope oh sure happy thought sure sure

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