UA-36582162-1 The Condition of Happiness - The Good Fail

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9th Dec 2019

The Condition of Happiness

This week we want to debunk the myth that happiness should be earned through hard work and the attainment of perfection.

HOW DOES BEING HAPPY, AND PUTTING CONDITIONS ON WHEN WE’RE ALLOWED TO FEEL HAPPY, RELATE TO DOING THE GOOD FAIL?

As millennials we feel the pressure to be meeting certain milestones and to be our best selves ALL of the time. There’s no set path to follow, no clear advice to guarantee success and, in our experience, little tutors or mentors can say to help as the job landscape has changed so quickly since “their time”.

WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR US JUST TO BE HAPPY?

Because we’re having to promote ourselves, not our work anymore. It’s about who we are as an aspiration, not a reality. We are having to ask ourselves, who am I as a brand? 

UNDERSTANDABLY THIS MAKES US FEEL WHAT?

Not good! Like anxiety ridded wrecks! It’s all about the hustle these days. And doing the hustle might have positive connotations but more often then not leaves us feeling stressed and cranky! Always telling ourselves we just need one big break and then we’ll be happy forever. This is what we mean by putting conditions on our happiness.

IN THAT CASE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE HAPPY EVER AGAIN?

Yes, we believe so! It is definitely possible to be happy but it’s okay to not be happy ALL of the time. You don’t have to always be making the MOST of EVERYTHING! That would just be exhausting! We don’t have to be our best selves all the time.

WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE FROM ALL THIS?

Let’s not put pressure on ourselves to feel a certain way at a certain time when certain things align in our favour. If we give ourselves permission to be happy less, we might actually be happy more often.

WHAT’S OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR THIS WEEK?

@i_weigh on Instagram

Founded by Jameela Jamil, it’s a social media page with a message. This page will make you feel less ashamed of being not so much of a brand and much more of a human.

WHAT’S UP IN OUR NEXT EPISODE?

This is actually the last episode of series 1 and we’ll be taking a short break over Christmas. But we’ll be back in the New Year so stay tuned.

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The Good Fail
A guide from creatives on not giving up.
The Good Fail is brought to you by twin sisters Merle and Abra Hunt, Illustrator and writer/actor respectively, as they navigate life as creators and the struggle to keep going in the face of apparent failure.
Together this is their response to the medias onesided image of success. They're learning to embrace their failure and turn it into a positive, bringing you a different perspective on what it looks like to succeed in the creative business and life in general.



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It started with finger painting, progressed to reams and reams of stick figures, scribbles, mother eating ghosts and anatomically incorrect spiders, grew into days spent in our room creating fantastical worlds we would draw and write about in fastidious detail, blossoming exponentially outwards as all encompassing hobby transformed to dedicated passion, when all school work came complete with intricate borders and full page drawings; we found new ways to express our inner world by breathing life into characters on stage and we counted the minutes we had to spend doing sports and maths lessons like they were hours. Later our creative zeal focused into a three year bachelors degree in illustration and a masters in creative writing, with it all finally culminating in a half finished illustrated novel, launching illustrated stationery business Merle Made Tales, collaborating on commissions for wedding and event stationery, getting the first few paid acting jobs and launching this podcast. One way or another, we were always going to be creators.