Show Notes 03:00 – Discussing the ego as an ‘organism’ 05:00 – Why we experience happiness with a coherent story of reality 10:00 – How you experience “contradictions” reveals something critical about your standards 12:00 – Your stories about your experience are ‘power tools’ – learn to use them well 15:00 – Why goals always create obstacles, and what to do about it 20:00 – What Atlas Shrugged reveals about the nature of contracts between individuals 34:00 – Emotions are Messengers and Motivators 40:00 – Avoiding painful situations doesn’t work – here’s what to do instead 45:00 – Learning to define what “good” is – and why that matters 01:00:00 – Being ‘worthy’ of happiness vs being ‘capable’ of happiness, and what that means for your life 01:12:00 – Rand’s definition of happiness as a state of ‘non-contradictory joy”