WEBVTT - Thou Shalt Know Happiness 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:09.320 Hi, I'm Daniel Scheffler, and this is everywhere Today's travel commandment, 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:24.200 thou shalt know happiness. Everything is about happiness, what it 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.080 all means, what it all feels like, and of course, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.840 how to acquire it. The New York Times publish as 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.000 a piece about happiness every few months. The format might change, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.960 but the basic premises the same. It is something you 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:45.240 should be pursuing. Endless amounts of workshops are scheduled across 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.240 the globe, with names like The Simplest Path to Happiness 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:54.840 or Craft Your Deepest Joy. I noticed that Amazon dot 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.320 Com had specific divisions dedicated to books on obtaining happiness, 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.680 and these titles are even better than the workshops. You 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:09.360 Are your Happiest Itself or Take Your Path Back to Happiness. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.040 I don't know where I was, but apparently I needed 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.800 to go back. Remember that episode of Sex in the 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.440 City where Charlotte was in the self help section in 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.839 the Barns and Noble store in Manhattan and she pretends 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.319 she was looking for travel, only to order starting over 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:32.759 yet again. So apparently happiness used to also be shameful, 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.959 but at a different time. Now, and as someone who 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.760 loves Los Angeles can tell, you here, you are hunting 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:45.080 for happiness every minute from your uber, from your raiky 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.280 appointment to your juice bar and some healing at the 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.160 ranch in Malibuu. They're all these apps specifically engineered to 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.080 help you find happiness, usually through some meditation for the 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.040 subway or more ex tests of exercising right at home 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:06.160 in your lounge for a mere six minutes. Or of course, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.560 you can actually travel to one of these millions of 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.160 wellness retreats where goats can stand on top of you 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.639 for yoga, or you could howl into the sunrise. The 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.040 more you yodel, the happier you'll be. Of course, it 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.360 makes sense to me, But luckily Bhutan has bigger and 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:31.359 better plans. In two the country's fourth Dragon king coined 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.040 the phrase gross National Happiness, the g n H. The 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.919 idea was to build a country based on Buddhist spiritual 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:44.080 values opposed to all this Western materialism usually defined by GDP. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.880 And decades later, the citizens, from my very limited visitors 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.160 perspective walking around seem happy as you can be. But 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.239 long before Baton decided to give importance to something other 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.919 than I don't know, money and greed. The ancient Greek 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.680 philosopher Aristotle said, happiness is in the meaning and the 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.960 purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.920 And who are we to argue with that? The tricky 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:19.640 part is, isn't happiness totally subjective? Bhutan reveals these factors 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.160 in the smallest and biggest ways, like the fact that 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.760 they cap the amount of people who are proved for 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.440 visas every year because they don't just want the country 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.480 trampled by tourists. And secondly, there's a minimum spend of 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.560 two hundred and fifty dollars per person per day, which 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.480 means you have to save up a little to go 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.960 to the country. Basically, it's not a cheap holiday where 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.080 you can just backpack and leave your mark. They want 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.360 tourists to choose it actively and consciously, and therefore they 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.760 hope you'd respect it and value it so much more. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:58.360 And it's true I did, and I do so. Before 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.400 arriving at the country's only airport in Paro, Mount Everest 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:08.600 comes into immaculate view within moments. The plane then descends 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.320 onto one of the most challenging landing strips in the 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.600 whole world, with peaks rising up to sixteen thousand feet 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:22.159 surrounding us, and then this crazy, notorious turn where rooftops 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.440 are almost clipped by the wings of the plane as 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.680 it touches down. The flight attendant, who was in the 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.840 jump seat right in front of me, proudly told me 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.000 that only eight pilots in the world are skilled enough 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.560 to do this specific landing. It's a great honor for 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.560 them that the pilot is the best in the world. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.000 When last did anybody say that about a flight? Anyway, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.280 The country is squeezed between a global giant, China, who 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.920 they are mightily wary of, and India, who they pretty 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.520 friendly with, but they remain autonomous in all their dealings. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.560 The first evidence of this somewhat insular world is they 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.080 have national dress. From the moment you set foot on 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.599 this holy land, almost everyone you see is robed. Men 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.159 wear this knee length robe called it go that's tied 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.080 at the waist and has a pouch for food or 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.000 a dagger or maybe an iPhone, and women wear a 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.279 kira which is ankle length plus a little light outer jacket. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.279 The Amound Resorts has created a way to see it 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.400 almost the entire country where they've built these five equally 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:37.320 beautiful Zong inspired Resorts. Zong is a traditional beautiful building 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.960 styled in this specific Butanese way. So they've placed them 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.400 in a sort of circuit formation, the five or dubbed 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.839 Aman Cora, which combines Aman, which is sanscrit for peace 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:55.640 and cora meaning a circular pilgrimage in Zonka, the Butanese language. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.799 So Nam who was my guide, and I chatted about happiness, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.120 and he revealed that for him and his family, they 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.080 live a life where dreams aren't crazy big, they're just 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.599 the right size for finding them. And as John Reid, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.240 who's the Aman Resorts regional director but also a bit 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.039 of a prophet, said to me, you come to Bhutan 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:22.520 to understand respect for others. The country itself feels like 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:27.120 a perfectly sized dream opposed to a dictatorship style monarchy. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:32.040 Jing Ma Kesar Namja buang Chuk married a commoner and 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.400 runs his country according to kid which is a tradition 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.479 based on the rule of Dharma king whose sacred duty 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.800 is just to care for his people. Then there's this 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.280 modern school system with free and universal education and even 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.000 free healthcare. It's also the only country in the world 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.120 where smoking is completely banned from the outside. There seems 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.479 to be no suffering. It's also just so iconically beautiful 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:02.040 and marvelously peaceful. The statistic so, of course hard to verify, 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.200 but at like thirty miles an hour speed limit, it 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.520 would seem logical that fewer car accidents happen. So Nam 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.000 didn't even understand. When I asked him whether people drink 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:18.120 and drive, he just said, why would anyone do that? Again, 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.440 it's in the small things, but then there's also in 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.119 these breath taking the big things, like hiking to Tiger's Nest, 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.840 the most sacred monastery in the country. It's literally perched 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.320 on this cliff in the fluffy clouds. Its name is 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.640 fundamental to understanding the country's reverence for Buddhism. So the 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.440 legend says that in the eighth century, Guru Imposh flew 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.120 hair from Tibet on the back of a tigress, a 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.280 manifestation of his divine consort. His reason for visiting was 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.120 to subdue a demon, and then he eventually decided to 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.400 live in a cave for three years, three months and 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:04.120 three days while atating and in this is where they 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:09.360 built this iconic monastery. Day to day life here is simple. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.360 Some people work in the small cities, and it's mainly agriculture, forestry, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.320 and then of course tourism plus the sale of hydro 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.160 electric power to India that keeps the country's economy going. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.760 But most people embrace this kind of gentler life, one 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.520 where Buddhist values are adhere to in families, to almost 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.840 all activities together. I had lunch at this local family's 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.840 home and the entire family piped in to eat broth, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.000 served with their national dish, which is this sewee, cheese 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:46.760 and peppers mix, all served with rice. Everyone sat on 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.560 the floor and before the herbal tea was served, everyone 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.960 shared their favorite story of the day. How's that for 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:59.280 a hopeful Monday moment. Fresh produce markets are quietly filled 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.920 with local people buying their goods, chatting about the broths 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.080 they're going to be preparing at home. And so here 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.960 we have people at their finest, belonging to I don't know, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:15.680 world order of togetherness, acceptance and tolerance, something that a 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.840 tiny country in Bhutan with mostly I guess a homogenized 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.920 population is able to take great pride in. I just 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.760 so wish the rest of the world could do with 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.920 some of these lessons. Baton, with all its harmony and 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.160 quiet beliefs, functions within the world as its own world. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.480 The Buddhist prayer flags and iconic red, blue, yellow and 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.960 green colors they littered throughout the country. Every bridge, tree 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.640 and street has them, breathing in the mountain air and 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:51.000 flapping out pure joy. Some of that's the metaphor I 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:55.040 have for the country. People might be somewhat different, but 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.800 yet attached to some great ambition for the world. Some 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.120 may even call that happy nous, But what do I know. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.320 I found my very personal, very Daniel moment of ordinary 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:15.040 happiness in Western Australia, flying to a little town called Parabado, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:20.520 northeast of Perth, where I landed in mining country. I 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.040 looked down from my plane window and I saw this 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:28.480 rubicund earth and truly not much else. I stepped onto 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.360 the melting tarmac at this tiny bush airport and I 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:38.160 could smell something dusty and ancient, a life before life 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:43.080 kind of beauty scent. It is here at this tiny 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:48.160 building with no gates, where I met Mark Olive, an 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:53.400 Aboriginal chef from Australia. We had a moment to sit 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.640 down on a little bench right in the Airport almost 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:04.440 building to talk about nate of ingredients and eating kangaroo. Hi. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.200 My name is mircoel If. I'm known as the Black 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.199 Boles around Australia and through my TV series, but not 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.760 only that as a judge on the Chef Line as well. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.520 So what I'm known for in Australia is about Indigenous food. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.280 And when you're talking indigenous food, you're talking about proteins 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:26.559 like kangaroo in, crocodile, possums, wallaby, so our indigenous native animals. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.720 And look, people freak out a little bit that we're 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.000 the only country that eats our coat of arms. But 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:37.400 let's face it, high protein, extremely tasty. And what we've 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.920 got to remember is in Australia, but not only data 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.160 around the world that for indigenous people it was never 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.960 their coat of arms. It was their actual dreamtime stories, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.560 it was their totems, it was a life source and 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.079 it was their clothing source as well. So we've got 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.040 to remember that, and I think once we do that, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.640 it's the inn where we start understanding about the food 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:04.720 of Australia as well. We have an amazing sort of proteins, herbs, spices, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.920 fruits in Australia and it hasn't been tapped into anywhere 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.440 else in the world. And we're very, very fortunate, because 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.520 we're feel isolated that we're lucky enough to have this head. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.000 But you know, it's been documented all around Australia through 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:25.320 paintings and through storytelling oral story generally right around the country. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.360 In the day, there was over three hundred sixty eight 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:32.040 communities the indigenous communities that were active in this country. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.760 Travelers often come to places one thing to be parted 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:41.280 and wanting to understand culture and place and history. Were 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.559 you doing a good job champion the food part of that, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.040 which I think is to me, I feel food is 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.920 such an amazing way into a culture because food becomes 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:56.000 personal and food is something that brings back memories and essential. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:02.040 So for me, travelers come to Australia, seek out Indigenous food, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:07.520 Indigenous chefs, indigenous tasting dinners and stories and that's your 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:13.800 way in. I'll totally travel as what we have in 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.640 this country's exciting when you say these paperboys, so he's 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:23.160 really embracing what we've got here. I waved Mark Olive goodbye, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.840 and now please imagine my face when I arrived at 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.359 the car raintall place, and they give me this badass 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:36.640 mining car. Now to imagine this vehicle, think Mad Max, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.239 but a few less skulls. But they were gargantuan headlights, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.120 tires as tall as I am, and a flag sticking 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.960 out at the back. The flag had an EMU on it. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.640 The lady at the reception said she could change it 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.000 for a kangaroo if I'd prefer. Apparently those are the 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.560 only choices on offer here. The machine came complete with 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.839 a radio for communication, which I had no clue how 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:08.160 to use, and many many extra tires, a host of 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.080 surplus supplies, and what looked like a towing facility that 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.200 I hoped I wasn't going to have to employ. I 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.960 think I was wearing my black birken stocks throughout this 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.320 whole adventure, because I was ready for the deepest, greatest 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.760 sandy desert. I was free and untethered, and I was 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:33.720 let loose into this prehistoric land. Of course, within the hour, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.680 I had missed the tiny sign I was supposed to 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.040 look out for. With no phone service and just a 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.040 hand drawn map that may have needed just one more stemp, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.960 I was now cruising with some local radio station playing 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:53.600 what sounded to me like did you redo country music? 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.120 Ozzie girls, Kath and Kim would have been so proud 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.440 of me at this very moment. Look at Marie, Look Marie. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.680 Right then I slammed on the brakes and they locked. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.760 As I skidded sideways, just about rick rolling this monster truck. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.920 I came to dead standstill, right out of any action movie, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:23.560 my face touching a handsome kangaroo. Oh hello. He lunged 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.640 his pocket lips at me and bam. Right there, in 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.360 the deepest remote desert, I had my first kangaroo kiss. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.640 I had my windows open so that the dry air 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.760 could blow through my hair. For hours now, I had 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.040 not seen a single car. I was the out back 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.440 at its finest. The sun was coming down a little 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.360 and the shadows were starting to form. When I arrived 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.520 in a little town, well, what seemed like a little town. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:16:01.360 Giants signs saying turn back now down her, of course 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.600 intrigued me. I skulked a hand and saw a very 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.200 tanned person hanging up their laundry. Oh hello, I was 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.360 sure she was going to offer me a bevy as 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.000 the Aussies say, so, I pulled over, I hop out, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.680 and I introduced myself with some cheer. She seemed shocked. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.200 Nobody comes. Yes, She tells me it's condemned and the 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.280 government is trying to buy our home and send us 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.240 away as bestos. If I had service at this point, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.080 I would have googled the words as bestos and the 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.720 little town's name, Wittenoom, and I would probably have returned 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.640 to my car and run off. But she was fascinating, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.640 and she didn't care about asbestos. She cared more about 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.360 her home, and so she was one of the last 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:54.080 three remaining residents in this mining town. I oddly admired her. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.440 She eventually sent me on my way with some directions 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.880 that made sense, and I found my around to the 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.000 pop up dinner that my friend Paul Is Scoff was 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.760 hosting with his further team. Paul and I stand around 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:13.679 under a tree and talked about the importance of native ingredients. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.040 How do you feel about eating kangaroo? So we are 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.879 kangaroo when we're in America, and some of the guys 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.680 were a bit wary of eating it, but we got 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.960 everyone in the room to try it, and they thought 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:33.720 it was delicious. Kangaroo has lesson to sent that's really 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.080 high and high. It's not farm so all the kangaroo 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.960 here is wild harvested. We don't want to fade it 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.840 or give it water. It doesn't have any hormones or anything, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.760 so it's I guess you could say free range or 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:53.000 open range. It is really healthy, really delicious, and there 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.879 is an abundance of tangaroos in Australia. When they're holding 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.560 across the country, they actually spread maybe see. They don't 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:07.240 compact their rounds, whereas cattle kill. Something that I find 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.240 so amazing is that there's this sort of respectful the 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:16.800 indigenous people of especially Western Australia, where you come into 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.479 contact with people that are native in much bigger numbers 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.360 than when you were in Melbourne, Sydney with the kind 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.160 of touristic parts of Australia. Here, it feels like it's 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:32.600 so respected and thought about. How did you decide that 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.960 this is how you want to cook? I think a 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.159 really important thing for us was to do it in 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.560 a really respectful way, and us provision and learn from 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.560 the traditional end. These Abiginal people have thousands and thousands 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.920 of years knowledge and they've looked after country and kept 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.320 those grants and animals growing in a really sustainable way. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.480 So for us it was about our permission and then 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:06.000 sitting and listening and learning about these plants and animals. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.800 And I think the more we do that we feel 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.800 connected to where we are. But I think people come 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.679 into visit it's a great way to be introducing the 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.360 cultures through food. Each region visiting in wasting in Australia 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.480 is totally different to the others. So some of these 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.600 ingredients are blowing these so called super food exam the 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.480 water so healthy. But I think it's really important for 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.600 especially the chefs using them, to do it in a 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:40.080 respectful way. And when these foods are purchased, if it's 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:45.120 Aboriginal people wildhuvest, they get paid failure in that they're 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.960 including the conversation. And I think that in the years 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.520 to come, the world is going to see just how 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:58.879 incredible Australian foods are. Paul's dinner is a long table 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.960 of twenty overlooking an enormous gorge as Lucy and the 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.520 night sky filled our eyes with diamonds. Paul sends up 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.840 these bush dinners all over Western and Northern Australia, using 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.560 Aboriginal ingredients foraged from the land, and he only works 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.359 with locals, real people. He brings a truck or two 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.600 and sets up a truly pop up kitchen with his 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.679 medley chummy crew. It brings your attention to the beauty 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.719 of the place, sure, but the significance of what local 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.359 and truly from the land means is what you're thinking, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.080 Whose land is this really? Who foraged here before the 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.200 tattooed hipsters came? And Paul, who grew up with the 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:49.240 Aboriginals in Western Australia, talks about all of this over dinner. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.840 Why is it so important to eat kangaroo as a 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.440 sustainable meat? How can we respect the land and its 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:01.560 original people? As I sit watching these courses of unique 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:07.560 and marvelous ingredients come out from marinated emud to green 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:18.400 tree antslop, wild flowers, lemon, myrtle, wattle seeds, quandong, sandalwood nuts, 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.919 I could go on. Suddenly I was reminded that no, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:26.679 I'm not at some cool dinner. I'm actually tapping into 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:31.520 a deeper consciousness of place and people and all that 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:37.320 actually matters. And yeah, fuck yeah, this is happiness not 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:50.720 for dummies. Now for a slight respite and I'll be 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.080 right back with everywhere after a word from our sponsors, 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:03.720 thanks for sticking around. Here's more of everywhere. H Holly, 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.160 thanks for being here with me today. We're in New 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.440 York and rainy New York talking about happiness. So. I 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.440 spent some time in Bhutan, and one of the things 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.679 that stayed with me after being there is that I 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.760 don't want to measure my life in any other way 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:29.560 than in a gross happiness index. There's such merit to that, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.200 and I wish that so many other countries could think 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:37.480 about this and not only see capitalism and commercialism and GDP. 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:42.280 I think Bhutan has put this beautiful thing in the world, 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.199 and if you spend time there, you realize that every 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.520 citizen believes this thing. They buy into it, and they 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.880 feel that and they measure their life in a totally 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.200 different way they do. The problem, I think is like 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.240 trying to integrate that ideology in the lives that we 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:03.000 have built is going to be tricky, because, like if 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:05.639 you look at the history of happiness and how it 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.760 has been viewed, you start to see that particularly like 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.239 Western culture, European and North American culture, we kind of 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.200 tried to get the message and we messed it up. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:20.199 Um So for example, in the Christian tradition, happiness was 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.240 originally the state in which Adam and Eve existed before 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.119 they had knowledge. It's just this, you know, state of 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.359 being without all of the detritus in our brains that 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.720 we develop as soon as we start thinking about things 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.640 and in ways that define them and and identify them, 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.040 and then there's an interesting thing that happened. Right. So, 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:43.400 in Indo European language, without exception, going all the way 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:47.359 back to ancient Greek, the word for happiness is a 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:51.639 cognate with the word for luck. They're very deeply intertwined. 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.520 So the idea is sort of that happiness is not 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:58.800 something that you could work toward or achieve. It either 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:00.320 came to you or it didn't. It was just a 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.840 matter of how the coin fails, so to speak. And 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:06.760 then the writings of Confucius, happiness and luck are very 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:11.199 deeply intertwined. So per his ideology, a happy life was 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.720 just one that was smooth and free of obstacles. But 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:17.200 of course that doesn't involve having a lot of stuff. 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:21.080 It's not about like I have achieved X, just I 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.680 feel like my life is pretty smooth happy. Well, it's 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:27.760 not how we think about happiness now, like the world 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:32.440 sells you happiness in a way that feels so far 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:37.119 from anything that I personally believe, Like I watch happiness 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:41.199 being sold to me by advertising, sold to me by television, 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:46.400 sold to me by radio, everything everywhere. You cannot get 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:49.000 in a cab without an ad for something that is 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:52.280 going to make you happy. Finally, and then Greek and 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:54.879 Roman philosophy kind of twisted that I don't want to 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.359 say twisted, but they evolved it to a point where 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:00.280 happiness started to be a thing that you earned, but 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:03.560 it was very closely related to the good deeds that 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:09.560 you did and living in a simple way. And again, 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:11.639 the other thing that we have to think about is 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:14.960 that to them, this happiness did not mean like I 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:20.960 feel blissful. It just was more of like a stability situation, right, 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:23.880 like my needs are met, you live well and morally, 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.520 so your soul's needs are met, and consequently, like the 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:28.760 world is going to be pretty smooth for you. So 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:30.760 it's not an emotion so much as it becomes a 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:34.800 way of life, not something that was due or expected, 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:38.080 but something that you kind of created by being a 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:41.520 good person and doing good things. Sister, A later defined 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:44.560 it as happiness would lose all joy if nobody rejoiced 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.080 with us, which is sort of beautiful, right. It's that 0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:50.200 sense of happiness within a community. And he also equated 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:53.000 happiness with a tranquil mind. So up to this point 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:56.160 we aren't messing around with the ideas of having things, 0:25:56.200 --> 0:26:00.480 getting things checklist, which I know, how you know checklock, 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:05.520 I do. The Age of Enlightenment is where things start 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:08.840 to turn a little bit, and I think the intent, 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:11.240 as so often as the case may have been good, 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:16.240 but it got very distorted along the way, right Like 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.640 at that point the Age of Enlightenment involved this idea 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:23.719 that happiness was a right, not so much the result 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:25.960 of your behavior, but you were entitled to happiness. Of 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.520 course you're a human, which is not a bad idea. 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:32.040 The Declaration of Independence kind of bakes it right. In right, 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:34.120 we hold these truths to be self evident, that all 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:36.400 men are created equal, that they are endowed by their 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.560 creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:42.960 liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Of course, you should 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.920 go chase your happiness. That's just part of being human. 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:48.440 I love that. I love that idea that we should 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:52.040 all be pursuing that, whatever that means to Like, I 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:55.240 think about my happiness, like I think we've been told 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:58.000 that happiness is this thing, and then travel teaches you 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:01.680 that happiness comes from within. So I spent so much 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.919 of my life looking externally for happiness and whether it 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:08.439 was in people or places or things, and then I 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:11.959 realized I have to turn that inside. And when I 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:15.280