Winning the Lottery Could Ruin Your Life

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0:16Hey, Happiness Lab listeners.

0:18Welcome back to our Happiness Hot Take series, a whole season in which I call out the bad happiness advice that I so often hear on the internet.

0:26Today, we'll be going back to an episode from the very first season of the show to revisit the hot take that I get the most pushback about, the idea that more money doesn't necessarily make you happier.

0:36And it certainly doesn't guarantee a happy ending.

0:39But that's okay, because as we'll learn in today's episode, happy endings are sort of overrated to begin with.

0:46Here's this week's In Case You Missed It happiness hot take.

0:49I hope you enjoy it.

0:53It was the worst thing that ever happened to me.

0:57These were the words uttered by Billy Bob Harrell Jr., a man whose life had been unremarkable before a fateful event that ruined everything on June 28th, 1997.