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#021 - Susanna Halonen - The Happyologist; What Science Says Makes Life Happier

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Susanna Halonen is a positive psychology expert, author, published researcher, TEDx speaker, online columnist, and a regular commentator in the media from the BBC to The Huffington Post and more.

The one thing we all endeavour to be is happy. And in today's episode, we find out science's suggestions for the best approaches to leading a happy life. Smiles abound, let's journey together to find some happiness.

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Susanna's Website: https://happyologist.co.uk

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi friends. This week we're talking about happiness. The field of psychology for a

0:08.3

very long time was focused on making bad people okay as opposed to okay people

0:13.4

better or happy people even more happy. I'm happy to sit down pardon the pun with

0:20.8

Susanna Hallenan who is the world's first happyologist. She is a positive

0:27.9

psychology specialist. The author of Happiness is here and screw finding your

0:32.6

passion. She's a published researcher, TEDx speaker, online columnist and a

0:36.8

regular commentator in the media from the BBC to the Huffington Post and more.

0:40.9

And we're going to try and find out how we become a little bit happier in life.

0:45.3

I was incredibly surprised at how many basic steps we can take in our day-to-day

0:53.4

life to actually make our level of happiness. Our baseline level of satis

0:57.8

faction improved. It was very enlightening and there was a lot of new

1:04.4

information that came out of this. Now one of the key tools that Susanna

1:11.7

suggests that everybody should be using is a journal and I know that I will be

1:16.5

asked for some advice on which journal I recommend, which one I use. So the

1:21.7

six-minute diary which I've mentioned on numerous life hacks the podcast with

1:27.5

Warren Cass and the podcast with you in Lawson will be linked in the show notes

1:32.0

below. It's my favorite way to develop a journaling habit three minutes on

1:37.7

the morning, three minutes in the evening with prompts for questions. Susanna

1:42.2

gives you a lovely little program that you can follow as well on a weekly and a

1:48.1

daily basis. You can add those in. I've chosen to, as there are sections in the

1:52.1

diary, to add weekly notes as well. If you follow the link in the show notes

1:57.1

below you will be supporting this channel at no extra cost to yourself. So

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