Emma Watson explains why having your dream life doesn't guarantee happiness “To have to ask myself the question of like, you right now have the career and the life that looks like the dream but are you really happy Emma? Are you really healthy? Are you really happy? Is this really what you want?” “To be at that point and have to admit to myself that I wasn't and I didn't was one of the scariest things I've ever had to do because I basically had to ask myself on a daily basis. I felt like I was crazy and walking away from something without knowing what you're walking towards” “Not having the answers but leaving something that the world considered to be such a high value moment in my professional life and career” “I think sitting with that was a real moment of reckoning of like, can you tell yourself the truth? Can you live with your truth? Can you accept the fact that for most other people your truth is pretty confusing and unpalatable?” “That was definitely a hard moment of sitting, more recently because I've been being my own partner asking myself, are you really living your values, things that you preach? Are you actually aligned?” “Looking at some spaces in my life I was like, no, not at all. I'm actually not doing what I talk about and I need to create some sort of urgency or a deadline for that so that I make sure that I'm a person of integrity. I purport to be someone that cares about the world and about the planet and sustainability” “There are some things I was doing. Was it enough by my own standards? Not by anyone else's. Just by my own. Probably not but what's nice is I actually have the time now to be like, ‘Okay, what are you going to do about it? Get on with it’”