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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