The Saad Truth about Happiness Quotes

“In other words, a playful mindset into adulthood protects our bodies and minds in a myriad of ways and gives us more positive outlook regarding our lives.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Not surprisingly, historically speaking, dictators have always despised the use of humor, precisely because they recognize that their hold over people is ultimately fragile, based on force and lies, and humor undermines their rule.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“The real-world experiments of comparing socialist-communist countries and capitalist ones have been repeated on countless occasions, and the data could not be any clearer that socialist-communist societies produce poverty and misery and capitalist societies produce prosperity and happiness.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“To be successful in our quest for happiness, we need to tackle life with the grit, determination, and persistence necessary to achieve meaningful goals, whilst possessing a protective armor against possible, even likely, failures. Successful individuals are almost always "anti-fragile" when it comes to failure. They
lean from their failures but are not broken by them.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Without some optimal level of grit and persistence, few new businesses would ever have seen the light of day, and few New Year's resolutions would ever be kept.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“pseudonyms) when he famously stated: “Fools live to regret their words [actions], wise men to regret their silence [inactions].”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Recognize that your past, which might include tragic elements, is a feature of your personhood. But you are not defined by past injustices. Rather, you should be invigorated by the promises of a better future. The only road to individual dignity and sustained existential happiness is to adopt an ethos of personal agency. You are the ultimate architect of your own happiness. So get to work!”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“People can never be maximally happy if they navigate through life with a brittle, fragile personality or mindset (as progressives so often do).”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“That said, as long as rejection does not kill you, it will indeed make you stronger, if you have the will to persist. Enduring failure, and coming back and persisting in your efforts, is how you become “anti-fragile.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Most universities proclaim that the pursuit of interdisciplinarity is one of their central missions, and yet when it comes to actually supporting such endeavors, they quickly revert to disciplinary tribalism.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“There are few decisions that you will ever make that will augment your happiness and well-being as much as when you choose to share your life with dogs. Dogs are so special that even the act of spending money on them increases our happiness!62”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Somewhere between the amoral organizational culture depicted in the television series Mad Men and the wokeism of Disney and Netflix lies the optimal sweet spot of being socially responsible (taking care of the environment in which a business operates) without alienating the great majority of your consumers with blue-haired progressive nonsense.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“woke capitalism is less successful than apolitical capitalism, as measured by a recent study of the stock prices of woke companies.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Beyond suicides, men are much more likely than women to be the victims of a murder, to be incarcerated, and to be homeless;27 one wonders why the patriarchy has yet to resolve those disparities in men’s favor. I am sure that the Wellesley College Women’s Studies department is assiduously working on explaining how these epidemiological facts make women the primary victims in all of these situations”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Globally, men are three times more likely than women to commit suicide, even though women are more likely to make an unsuccessful attempt (perhaps because, with women, it is often meant as a call for help).”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“As political scientist Charles Murray of The Bell Curve fame once said on my show, the happiest marriages occur when you “marry someone who is your very best friend to whom you are also sexually attracted.”23”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Those who have a burning desire to destroy the past—and the present—are unlikely to be happy. And their promise—or belief—that utopia is just around the corner is false and can never be fulfilled, which leads to further unhappiness.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Those who have a burning desire to destroy the past—and the present—are unlikely to be happy. And their promise—or belief—that utopia is just around the corner is false and can never be fulfilled, which leads to further unhappiness. Happiness”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Progressives seek to eradicate the past—knocking down statues, rewriting textbooks, banning old books of which they disapprove—and start anew.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to be happy and content because they are grounded in the eternal truths of humanity and human nature, have a much stronger sense of family and nurturing traditions, and have an appreciation for the order and ancient wisdom that has brought us Western democracy and capitalism.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Is one’s political orientation related to happiness and well-being? Numerous studies have established that conservatives report being happier than liberals, exhibit greater well-being, and possess a greater sense of meaning and purpose in life.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Personally, I believe that the only path to true happiness is one of minimal governmental intrusion into our lives and our bank accounts”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Epictetus famously opined: “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Many of the worthy pursuits in life involve risks, obstacles, rejections, and the ever-looming potential of failure. By adopting a mindset rooted in well-calibrated persistence, grit, and anti-fragility, we increase we increase the chances of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of finding purpose, meaning, and happiness in our lives. In many instances, people end up forgoing prospective opportunities because of the fear of failure.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Competition is part of life, and with competition comes the constant reality that one might be rejected or defeated.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“The only road to individual dignity and sustained existential happiness is to adopt an ethos of personal agency. You are the ultimate architect of your own happiness. So get to work!”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“The ability to overcome adversity and failure is an evolved capacity that is essential to countless organisms, including humans. The capacity to develop an anti-fragile response to repeated failures is a fundamental, necessary, and beneficial feature of life. No meaningful goal can ever be achieved without resilience and effort.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“...humans have evolved a desire to consume animal protein, and they are not going to lose that desire. As such, it is wrong-and likely suboptimal to our well-being-to expect us all to become strict vegans. 56 That is simply a fact for which there is anatomical, physiological, morphological (cranial and dental), paleobiological, parasitological, archaeological, cross-cultural, anthropological, nutritional, genomic, genetical, medical, sexual, and psychological data to support my argument.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Truth is anti-fragile. It is not brittle. It does not shatter into a million pieces because of an -offensive and hurtful- joke. An individual with a strong personhood can laugh at others (in a playful manner) and laugh at himself. Humor is a test of anti-fragility and non-brittleness in a person and in a society. A society that can’t laugh at others and at itself in a good-humored way is on its way out.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life