265: Neil Pasricha - How To Be Happy • Untouchable Days • Find Your Authentic Self
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Neil Pasricha (IG: @neilpasricha) helps people live happy lives.
He is a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and positive psychology researcher.
Neil is one of the most popular TED speakers with his first TED Talk "The 3 A's of Awesome" (2010) ranked as one of the ten most inspiring of all time.
Neil has written five New York Times and #1 International Bestsellers including: The Book of Awesome, a catalog of simple pleasures based on his 50-million hit, award-winning blog and The Happiness Equation, a nine step guidebook to happiness based on new research.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Action leads to motivation
- The lesson Neil learned at Harvard
- Hide, apologize, accept
- Working at Walmart
- The events that inspired Neil's blog
- Winning best blog in the world award
- How to be happy
- Focus on your strengths
- Researching positive psychology
- Be happy first
- Neil's obsession with the number 1000
- Prime your brain for positivity
- Three ways to increase your happiness
- The happiness equation
- 168 hours a week theory
- Creating space for passion
- Untouchable days
- What is decision fatigue?
- Intrinsic motivators matter more than extrinsic ones
- You can only compare yourself to yourself
- Find your authentic self
- Living in modern society with old brains
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Related links:
Neil Pasricha - The Happiness Equation (book)
The Institute for Global Happiness (Neil's website)
3 Books with Neil Pasricha (Neil's podcast)
Follow Neil Pasricha on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Neil Pasricha - The Book of Awesome (book)
Neil Pasricha - The Book of (Even More) Awesome (book)
Neil Pasricha - Awesome is Everywhere (book)
1000 Awesome Things (Neil's blog)
Neil Pasricha - Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week (article)
Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now (book)
Related episodes:
321: Neil Pasricha – You Are Awesome, Intentional Living, Becoming Anti-Fragile
211: Meik Wiking – What Is Happiness (Lykke)? • The Lost Wallet Experiment • Helper's High
114: Sean Croxton – The Pursuit Of An Authentic Life
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| 0:00.0 | draw a little 2 by 2 matrix, and on one side you put time, |
| 0:04.4 | and on the other side you put importance. |
| 0:06.6 | Every single decision you make |
| 0:08.0 | fits somewhere on that 2 by 2 matrix. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome. Thanks. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to The Ultimate Health Podcast episode |
| 0:17.0 | 265. |
| 0:18.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:20.0 | and we are here each and every week to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:24.0 | We will bring you inspiring conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:27.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:32.0 | Today we're speaking with Neil Pastretia. |
| 0:34.3 | Neil helps people live happy lives. |
| 0:36.6 | He's a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, a New York Times best-selling |
| 0:40.9 | author and positive psychology researcher. He's one of the most |
| 0:44.6 | popular Ted speakers with his first Ted Talk being the Three A's of Awesome back in |
| 0:49.1 | 2010 and this ranked as one of the 10 most inspiring of all time. |
| 0:54.0 | Neil is the author of the Book of Awesome. |
| 0:55.6 | You've probably seen this book around or you may even have it on your coffee table. |
| 0:59.5 | It's such a great read and something you can flip through anytime you want to appreciate the small things in life. |
| 1:04.4 | And Neil's latest book, The Happiness Equation, is the focus of today's interview and we get into some of his |
| 1:09.4 | lessons and here is what we talk about. We get into why action leads to motivation, how to focus |
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