334: How to Be a Happier Person, with Neil Pasricha

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Neil Pasricha: The Happiness Equation

Neil Pasricha is a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and positive psychology researcher focused on the relationship between happiness and leadership in business. He leads The Institute for Global Happiness.

Neil has written five New York Times and #1 international bestsellers including: The Book of Awesome*, Awesome is Everywhere*, and The Happiness Equation*. His books have been on bestseller lists for over 200 weeks and sold millions of copies.

Key Points

Retirement can be a shock for people, but having a sense of purpose makes it much easier to handle.
We need to take the stigma off demotions, because for some people it’s a better match to their stage of life. As people get older, they work less. It shouldn’t be a shame for them to earn less.
Social media solutions:
1. No screens in the first or last hour of day.
2. Put your charger as far away from your bedroom as possible.
3. Turn off notifications on your phone, or put your phone on airplane mode.
Happiness should be a starting point, not a destination.
The best time of day to check email is 9-10 am and 4-5pm.
If you’re only doing the urgent tasks, your never doing the important ones.

Resources Mentioned

The Happiness Equation* by Neil Pasricha
Irresistible* by Adam Alter
Abundance* by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler

Book Notes

Download my highlights from The Happiness Equation in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes

The Secret To Happiness (episode 134)
Five Ways to Avoid Living With Regret, with Allison Clarke (episode 171)
How to Engage With Humor, with David Nihill (episode 245)

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0:00.0	Leaders face a lot of tough situations. We deal with a lot of stress and over time and sometimes over years that wears on us.
0:08.0	Today how to break the funk and take practical action to restore your happiness.
0:14.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 334.
0:18.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential.
0:25.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:30.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and this
0:37.4	weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader.
0:44.0	One of the words that comes up for a lot of us,
0:48.0	if not in our daily conversations,
0:51.0	certainly in our thinking is happiness.
0:54.3	How do we become a happier person?
0:58.0	How do we capture the motivation
1:00.5	that so many of us have to want to lead a happy life and how do we create
1:03.9	that for others? Today's guest is someone who really is going to challenge
1:10.3	us. I know he's already challenged me, on thinking about happiness in a real practical way,
1:16.5	and to also at the same time challenge some of the assumptions that many of us have about
1:22.4	how to lead a happy life and to be happy in the workplace.
1:25.4	I am thrilled to welcome Neil Pass Richer to the show today.
1:29.4	He is a New York Times best-selling author of the Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome series, which has
1:35.2	been published in 10 countries, spent over five years on best-seller lists, and sold over
1:40.0	a million copies.
1:41.9	After 10 years heading leadership development at Walmart, he now serves
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