Shifting Perspectives: Mastering Optimism

A happiness expert explains how to alter your ego, reduce self-consciousness, and boost “okayness”. 

Bruce Hood has been a Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at Bristol University since 1999, and for the past 5 years he has been concentrating on how to make students happier. He undertook his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Cambridge followed by appointments at University College London, MIT and a faculty professorship at Harvard. 

In this episode we talk about:

• How to define happiness
• How to be happy in the midst of a shitshow
• How to shift from being egocentric (self-focused) to allocentric (interconnected) 
• The impacts of social isolation (and how to avoid it)
• The challenge of optimism (and how to overcome it)
• Finding a “flow state” through meditation
•  How to enhance your social connections
• Where “true, authentic happiness” comes from
• Controlling attention and rejecting negative comparisons 
• The role of nature
• And much more

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Additional Resources: 

• The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well

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