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#297 - Is Happiness a Flawed Concept? With Will Foster

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Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Should we be happy all the time? Thats what the self help gurus say no, that if we get it right we should be happy 24/7? In this fascinating episode about happiness I hear about the work of Will Foster, a happiness coaches that calls BS on many of the concepts we believe are true, and opens up a new way to think about being happy. Get this episode downloaded!

Join Wills Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/willfosterhappinesscoach/

And grab Will's book The Happiness Gap: http://amzn.to/2Eb71L

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Ben-Cuba Radio, episode number 297.

0:06.0

Now, let's talk about the mind, let's talk about how you feel.

0:10.9

I don't want to get too kind of hippie-licious but how we feel every day is very very

0:16.7

very important and we've talked a lot about mindset on the podcast we've talked a lot

0:21.3

about the kind of dynamics of happiness and how we should maybe approach what we do as people to become, you know, yeah, I'm going to say more happy, more happier, like however you want to frame it like we want to get the most out of our life right?

0:37.2

So I'm going to interview a guest today who's been on the show inadvertently before.

0:42.1

I didn't actually interview him he interviewed me I

0:45.2

enjoyed the interview so much I re-posted it on my podcast but today he is on the show he's

0:51.3

just written a book the filling the happiness gap which is all

0:57.1

about how we look at our lives happiness mindset and kind of really to give you scope on how you're feeling every day and maybe

1:04.9

whether we can shift some of the things that you're getting out of your life.

1:08.3

Will Foster, welcome to the show hello.

1:12.4

Hello Ben, thank you for having me my friend. This is lovely to be back.

1:16.6

Lovely to hear your fantastic voice and looking at your beard dude that looks like I mean can you give that a stroke for me that looks seriously I can give it a little stroke for you yes it's just been trimmed because it got to the point where the girlfriend was like fuck off and get down a barber. You look like a Yeti.

1:33.0

So she's like, it's gone from a nice man stubble stage to Harry Beaver

1:39.0

thing out of Lord of the Rings stage.

1:42.0

Very nice, dude.

1:44.0

Well, I got the mustache right now, because it's the second of November.

1:47.0

Although I'm blatantly cheating, because this is like five days worth of stubble,

1:51.0

so I've kind of done the head start which I'm not allowed to do

1:53.4

apparently.

1:54.4

You're not.

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