In the era of instagram, we're plugged into a global community in which there's always someone show casing something that on the surface seems to be better. Don't turn your experiences into a form of social flexing and don't post about it on social media. To your friends, live the life, but don't make a thing out of it. Those are three takeaways that came from this cone ation with psychology professor bill von hipple on the evolutionary science of what makes us happy.
#371: Psychology professor Bill von Hippel explains the evolutionary science behind how we’re hardwired as humans.
We’re wired to be social, to connect, to communicate and cooperate.
We’re wired to want to learn and teach, to build a collective body of knowledge that stretches beyond what any single individual could ever learn in their lifetime.
We’re wired to feel surges of happiness that fade, so that we’re intrinsically motivated to keep repeating behaviors that lead to additional surges of happiness.
Once we understand the evolutionary science behind what makes us happy, Dr. von Hippel explains, we can apply this knowledge to making better decisions for our work, money and lives.
Bill von Hippel is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan. He’s currently a psychology professor at the University of Queensland in Australia. He joins us to share his insights into the history and science of happiness.
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