How to Talk to People - Introducing: How to Build a Happy Life
Episode Date: September 22, 2021Welcome to How to Build a Happy Life! In this series, host Arthur Brooks digs into research and offers tools to help you live more joyfully. Join us for deep conversations with psychologists, experts,... and friends of The Atlantic's Chief Happiness Correspondent. For more info, visit www.theatlantic.com/happy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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There is a lot of advice out there on how we should live our lives.
Most of it sounds great on paper, but more often than not I ask myself.
Can't the pursuit of happiness be just a little bit easier?
I'm a little busy over here.
Welcome to How to Build a Happy Life.
In this series, I want to simplify things for you.
My expert guests and I will uncover the how-to's of happiness
from the inside out, from controlling our inner monologue
through meditation.
What this does is develop a skill called mindfulness,
which you could just translate into self-awareness,
to discover what it actually means to open your heart and be vulnerable, even when you're
not in the mood.
The container of the relationship needed to morph in some relationships it can and in some
relationships it simply cannot.
Happiness, first and foremost, requires self-awareness.
Only when we understand why we do the things we do can we begin to transform our lives through
self-discovery and love.
I have to find a way to do everything I can to make sure my kids know that they're worth
fundamentally is not extrinsic, but it's intrinsic.
It is determined by
their ability to give and receive love. Each week I'll not only provide the
theory behind happier living through these conversations, but also the
application. Unless we embed something more sustainable purpose and having that
higher meaning of doing something that's beyond yourself is what makes us
as individuals have this more sustainable form of happiness.
If there's one thing I know for certain about happiness,
it's that it's not a linear path.
But through the ups and downs, we can spend a few moments to talk it out
and explore the journey together.
Shall we?
How to build a happy life downloaded today on your favorite app or find it on youtube.com slash
user slash the Atlantic.
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