10 recipes for happiness from the beloved childhood clown Vyacheslav Polunin

Light, warmth and a lot of pleasure are brought by his every appearance in public. No one remains indifferent — neither adults, nor children, nor grandparents. In his recipes, the famous and touching "Asisyai" shares his wisdom, experience and love for his work. His divine talent to make people laugh and "touch" the very heart makes him unique. 

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In Cuba, I once watched for many hours a guy hanging a curtain in the hotel lobby — he came, danced, left, returned, turned on the tape recorder, tried on the ledge, left again, hummed, snapped his fingers; he hung up the curtain, it skewed and fell — he waved his hand and left, absolutely satisfied; he had an amazing, amazing few hours!

I have more than a dozen friends now, who are all amazingly happy people. And they manage to broadcast this happiness regardless of what their formal achievements are, how much money they have, whether they have difficulties. They are stronger than the world. They do not depend on the world, but help it to be happy…

I have a law called "feet in the water". Every three to five years, you should sit on the bank of the river, put your feet in the water, do nothing, sit and think: what have you done over the years? What for? Was it necessary to do this? Where are you going?..

Going all the time on the same road is boring, uninteresting, wrong. The horror of repetition: I have already sat here, I have lain here, I have drunk with this, I have eaten with this, I have danced with this. Impossible. In short, you have to arrange an audit for yourself: happy or not. This self-monitoring is a regular, mandatory procedure. Like washing. And if you feel the itch of unhappiness on your body, it must be eliminated.

You need to understand exactly what is wrong and in what place, this is the time. And finding the strength to make a step out of this place is two. And it always hurts a lot. Very difficult. And absolutely necessary.

Being unhappy is always striving somewhere and not noticing that you are already where you want to go. Every day you are in happiness. But often people don't notice it. Here a person thinks: if I achieve something, earn more money, take some heights - in science there or in society, then I will be happy. He does not understand that he is already in a state in which there is happiness. Always. And that's what fools do. This is wisdom. Actually, the clown's task is to help a person become a fool. Or stop being unhappy.

You only need to do what makes you tick inside.

It is interesting to do only what is impossible. The rest is not interesting.

To be a fool is to be happy. Fools are those who, despite everything, go straight to their happiness. They give up all unnecessary things and do only what leads to joy.