What you want is to work with good people. Not every job has good people in it. The janitor who cleaned our area was the nicest, happiest guy i've ever met. He really took pride in his job even though it was a job that most people wouldn't enjoy at all. I dont know whte case might be, but you can find this kind of satisfaction in almost any activity that you do. If you can find a way to use that activity to make the world a little bit better place, that's beautiful. Thank you for that message.
#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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