34: How Happiness Can Accelerate Your Success

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Emma Seppälä is a true friend of the show and we’re thrilled to speak with her about her new book, The Happiness Track. In this episode, we provide data-driven insight into how our overextension is hindering our success, and how cultivating happiness can actually drive our achievement. The research shows that we needn’t be chronically over-scheduled and over-caffeinated to achieve our goals. Pursuing things like meaningful relationships, gratitude and self-compassion can actually be more conducive to success. We cover some fascinating studies and offer practical thoughts on enhancing well-being and innovation. We think you’ll really enjoy the dialogue. --- 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
0:04.6	you insights into the mind brain behavior and creativity. Each episode will feature a
0:09.3	new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world
0:14.1	we live in.
0:15.1	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. The Today I'm so excited to have Emma Sepple on the show.
0:38.0	Emma is the science director of the Center for Compassion and
0:41.6	Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University.
0:45.2	She's the founder of the Poplboro News Site Fulfillment Daily and a frequent contributor
0:49.4	to Harvard Business Review in Psychology today.
0:52.2	And I also am honored to call her my friend.
0:55.7	Thanks Emma for being on my podcast.
0:58.4	Oh, thanks so much, Scott.
0:59.6	I'm happy to be here.
1:01.0	We go way back, don't we? Oh yes we do. And you've always been a source of
1:06.8	inspiration for me even like 10 years ago. 2003, I think I met you 2003. Is that right? I think I think I meant you 2003 is that right I think so oh likewise Scotty yeah
1:16.6	you've always been such a bright light and so I'm so excited that you have a new
1:20.4	book out and a big thesis of your book is that happiness is the fast track to success, not the other way around.
1:28.0	I thought we could unpack that a little bit. It's a sentiment that needs to be heard, but it's not very prominent, I don't think, in our work culture today, right?
1:37.0	This misconception that in order to be successful, we have to postpone our happiness and what research is
1:44.7	really showing is that if we do end up taking care of our well-being first the
1:48.9	result is that we will be more successful in a number of different ways.
1:51.8	Right.
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