Why Do We Long For Happiness?

Have you ever wondered why so many of us struggle to find true satisfaction and lasting happiness? Why it is that although we can get momentary happiness from things like food, sex, career, sport, money, these things don’t ultimately satisfy us? What is about humans (uniquely among the animal kingdom) that we need more than material things to satisfy us? In this short video, Andy Bannister offers some thoughts as to why all this might be.

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