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00:00Life is tough. It used to be said, it's said in the book of Psalms, that life is a veil of tears.
00:05This idea of looking for happiness is relatively modern.
00:09It came about really with the American Declaration of Independence,
00:12having the right to, you know, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:16Everyone wants to be happy. It's not easy to achieve.
00:20But one of the seven secrets of happiness, and they're quite complicated,
00:24and you need to learn all seven of them.
00:26If you do, you'll live seven to ten years longer than if you don't,
00:29because happy people do tend to live longer than unhappy people, all other things being equal.
00:34One of the things is not to resist change. People do resist change.
00:38Don't resist change. I don't like change. I don't like the modern world.
00:43I mean, I can't cope. I mean, I'm never going to get to heaven, because I won't remember the password.
00:47I mean, it's just a nightmare when I get to the gates.
00:49But the point is, change is the salt in the soup of life.
00:52Don't resist change. It will make you unhappy.
00:55And also, have a passion beyond politics. This isn't easy.
01:00I was lucky enough to know Margaret Thatcher, who was a remarkable person.
01:05But when she ceased to be prime minister, she had no other resources to fall back on.
01:10Politics was the passion of her life.
01:12And towards the end of her life, she became quite a sad person, because she no longer had that driving force.
01:17Cultivate a passion, something that you love doing, possibly beyond your work.
01:22That's key to finding happiness.
01:23Think of the Queen, late Queen Elizabeth II, born the same year as Margaret Thatcher, the same age.
01:28But she lived to 96, driven by duty, sustained by faith, but kept happy by her passion for her dogs and her horses.
01:35They really were the passion of her life.