This book combines humor and science to help readers improve their well-being by focusing on six key areas. Each chapter includes 'The Laughing Side' with funny stories and 'The Learning Side' with scientific insights. It offers a strengths-based approach to enhance happiness and resilience in personal and professional life.
The Laughing Guide to Change is a comprehensive manual that uses humor and science to enhance psychological, interpersonal, and physical well-being. It offers practical advice on setting goals, creating positive habits, managing emotions, and challenging negative thoughts. The book aims to motivate readers through achievable steps, blending entertainment with scientific insights.
This book explores the concept of mattering, which involves feeling valued and adding value, as essential for health, happiness, love, work, and social well-being. It provides research-based strategies for achieving mattering in various aspects of life, contributing to a more fulfilling and meaningful existence. The authors offer practical advice for individuals, therapists, managers, teachers, and healthcare professionals to optimize personal and collective well-being.
This book uses humor and scientific insights to help readers improve themselves, their relationships, and surroundings. It introduces the 'I CAN model,' focusing on Interactions, Context, Awareness, and Next steps to drive positive change. The authors leverage their life experiences and research to provide a roadmap for a happier and more fulfilling life.
In this book, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir reveal that scarcity, whether of time, money, or social connections, creates a similar psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. The authors discuss how scarcity leads to tunnel vision, reduces cognitive bandwidth, and affects decision-making. They provide examples such as why busy people mismanage their time, why dieters struggle with temptation, and why poverty persists. The book also offers insights into how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.
In this episode, I talk to Isaac Prilleltensky about well-being and happiness. We start our discussion by highlighting the environment and community’s role in well-being instead of conceptualizing it as a purely individualistic construct. Isaac further elaborates on the dangers of mattering “too much” and why we need to balance personal and collective wellness. We also touch on the topics of fairness, social justice, humanistic psychology, and Isaac’s works as a humor writer.
Bio
Isaac Prilleltensky holds the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami. He’s published 12 books and over 140 articles and chapters. His interests are in the promotion of well-being in individuals, organizations, and communities; and in the integration of wellness and fairness. His most recent book is How People Matter: Why It Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society, co-authored with his wife, Dr. Ora Prilleltensky.
Website: www.professorisaac.com/
Topics
00:01:10 Isaac’s definition of well-being
00:04:55 Predictors of well-being and happiness
00:06:58 The need to matter
00:09:48 Corrective justice to achieve equality
00:19:31 Me vs. We Culture
00:25:44 Fairness is a prerequisite for mattering
00:28:18 Risks of glorifying grit and resilience
00:32:16 Balancing liberty, fraternity, and equality for a self-actualized society
00:39:27 Democratize happiness
00:43:29 The right and responsibility to matter
00:51:27 Psychology and the status quo
00:53:44 Isaac as a humor writer: smarter through laughter
00:56:21 Fun for Wellness
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