Prager, the genius on happiness, advises that to be happy is a moral obligation.
I do not know if we can be happy, or even define what it is, but we can try to be happy and positive, and that will make us happier than we would have been otherwise.
Dennis wants us to act happy even if we do not feel happy, and the very effort will make us feel happier over time. He cautions that how we act as not the same as how we feel. We may have low self-esteem and feel pessimistic and gloomy, but if we act happy and stay at it, we will somehow be much happer with resulting higher self-esteem and feel more optimistic. That is what Dennis is promising and it works.
He warns that if we act unhappy, we make others unhappy and that makes the world worse. If we act happy, we make others happier, and that makes the world better.
He is telling us that our positive, loving attitude makes the world a little happier, and our negative, sour outlook drags people won.
Grateful, happy people are kinder to themselves and others.
Ungratedful, crabby people tear up themselves or others.
It matters not if one is an altruist or an egoist, Prager's guidance on happiness applies to all.
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