Paul Bloom: Happiness is a signal that our life is going as we would like it to. He says there's more to life than being happy, including establishing meaning and being a good person. His book The Sweet Spot was chosen by the show's curators as one of the eight best works of nonfiction published in 2021.
In his expansive new book, "Psych: The Story of the Human Mind," Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, "basically everything I know about the mind." And when he says everything, he means it. Where does consciousness come from? Does IQ matter? What makes us happy? Was Sigmund Freud a madman? The answers to these questions (and more) are all in Paul's book — and in this episode.
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