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Eric Weiner

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“That doesn't interest me. Let's put it that way. We're going to go into that. Let's talk about this book. So you decided to go around, explain what you did for the readers, what you've done here in this book.”
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“It's another big idea, and genius is big, and genius is important. I want to be clear when I talk about genius, I'm not talking about just a high IQ. That doesn't interest me. Yeah, no, because there are plenty of people with high IQs who don't produce anything. I'm talking about creative genius, creating something that is new, surprising, and useful. That's the definition you have to meet by the U.S. Patent Office, by the way, to get a patent. So that's a good working definition of genius. And yeah, I mean, Silicon Valley has produced its own version of genius. Let's put it that way.”
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“Maybe. Well, we're known for that. So here we are in Silicon Valley, which created a few little objects that have become important around the world phones, cell phones. It has. The internet, all the big internet companies are here.”
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“Yeah, that might be true, but the happiness of a country transcends the, if you're talking about politics, which I think you are, the political rhetoric of the day. And it takes a lot to move the happiness needle. And we're not in the top 10. We've never really been in the top 10. So we could probably talk for an hour and a half about why that's the case. But suffice to say that we're number one, the biggest economy in the world, the biggest military, we're not a happiness superpower.”
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“Oh, that's a good question. No, they remain pretty consistent. You know, Iceland is still doing well despite the economic upheavals they've had since my book came out. They've weathered them pretty well. And Bhutan is still humming along with its gross national happiness. No, I would say they're pretty much the same.”
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“Which is Moldova. Yeah, yeah, they're really unhappy there and for interesting reasons. No, I'm interested for the most part in the positive aspects of life, which is why I'm no longer a daily journalist.”
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“It's not an That would be. Yeah, I suppose analog, if we got all esoteric, we could say that the internet is a place. Because when I talk about place, I'm really talking about culture. You know, that's what interests me is the way this thing called culture, this fish tank that we're all swimming in, affects us. And you could argue that that exists online as well. But for the most part, right. For most of human history, it has been this analog thing called.”
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“Yeah, but I'm really interested in the intersection of place and ideas, where they come together. And I'm a place person. They're dog people, they're cat people. There are numbers, people, words people. I'm a place person. I look at the world through the prism of place.”
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“Exactly. And I'm like, I'm getting back in bed. You know, and that's reading the New York Times. Imagine reporting on NPR. So I had that light bulb moment where I thought, well, what if I spend a year traveling the world looking for the happiest places? The second light bulb moment was what if I got NPR to pay for me to do this? They didn't go for that. But I wrote a book about it. And it's fun. It's travelogue. It's philosophical. This may sound a little grandiose, but I like to think of myself as a philosophical traveler. What interests me is the intersection.”
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“That's what journalists do. What's wrong? Where are they fucking something up? I'm sure. Exactly. I read the New York Times yesterday and literally I read out the headlines to someone and it was like one horrible thing. And I'm like, I'm getting back in bed.”
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“Well, you know, for most of my career, I was a journalist, a foreign correspondent for NPR, and like most journalists, I specialized in misery. That's what journalists do. I'd wake up every morning and I think, well, what's wrong? I think where's the most miserable place in the world, and I would get on an airplane. Where are they fucking?”
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