Hi friends, we are back again and this week we're talking about life hacks but

perhaps with a little bit of a different angle. Karl Cedarsstrom is an associate

professor at Stockholm Business School, part of Stockholm University and he's

writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic and Harvard

Business Review amongst many others. Karl spent 12 months immersed in the human

optimization movement, him and his co-author André Spicer dedicated one month of

the year to a different area of their life and trying to optimize it as much as

possible. This is the absolute zenith Mount Everest of trying to optimize your life

and the experiences that Karl went through have elicited some really really

interesting results. He'll tell us exactly what out of 12 months of pure

optimization was the single best tool that he came across, how he was able to

optimize his sex, his relationships, his vanity, his looks, his finances and a

whole bunch of other things and then we move on to his new book which is called

the Happiness Fantasy. Now recently we've discussed happiness quite a bit

with Susanna Hallenon and in the Q&A that I did with Johnny and Yusuf and it's

an interesting to see Karl's approach to it. He makes a strong case that

happiness isn't something that any of us should be aiming for and that there

are much more worthy terms that would make us much more fulfilled and content

within life. I'm going to leave it there. I won't present any spoilers for the

rest of the episode but I wanted to give another shout out to Scott McGrath who

sent in a screenshot of him sending out on another company internal internet, one

of our podcast episodes. Now thanks very much for that Scott. I really appreciate it.

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