32: How to Live a Good Life

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Tom Rath is a 6x national best-selling author who works on the psychology of well-being. This episode provides science-backed insight into how to live a good life. We cover the development of positive psychology. We discuss optimizing your energy levels so you can really show up for life. The conversation progresses across creativity, personal mission and the education system. Finally, existential topics arise as we talk to Tom about his decades-long battle with cancer. This hour with Tom is a refreshing look at what really makes people happy and gives them a sense of meaning. We’re grateful for his time and we think this episode was special. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:08.0	Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world
0:14.0	we live in.
0:15.0	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Oh, So today I'm really excited to have Tom Rath on the show.
0:39.0	Tom is an author, researcher, and speaker whose books have sold more than 5 million copies and have been
0:44.0	translated into 16 languages. His books all of which become bestsellers include
0:49.3	how full was your bucket, Strengthsfinder 2.0, well-being, eat move sleep, and his latest book is Are You
0:57.0	Fully Charged, the Three Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life.
1:02.0	Thanks, Tom, for being on here today. Thanks so much I've been
1:04.8	looking forward to talking with you. Me too. I've been a long time admirer of your
1:10.1	work and the path that you've gone on, which has been a bit of a different path than
1:16.3	the path of the development of the field of positive psychology.
1:20.5	I thought we could actually talk about these two different paths.
1:24.0	One, you know, the great work that your grandfather, Donald Clifton, did, many call him the father of strengths-based psychology,
1:32.0	and kind of talk a little about how that relates now to the latest science of human flourishing.
1:38.0	So maybe you could just start off by telling me a little bit about your grandfather and his great work.
1:43.3	Yeah, you know, I've got kind of an interesting personal back story as it applies to positive
1:48.4	psychology I was at the IPA event earlier this year and I was joking with a few people I kind of feel like
1:56.9	Forrest Gump walking through all these things as an observer in the history of that.
2:01.1	And I think it's when I'd started at Gallup way back in the 9899
2:09.0	and I, after college, I went to Michigan and went to join my grandfather, Don Clifton, to help him figure out he was trying to determine what are the best ways to use this new internet thing that was the rage at the time to help people to learn a little bit
2:25.4	more about their strengths and who they are.
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