422: Happiness: There's a Science to It

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Scott Wilhite was in a corporate job he hated, with a mindset he called “grumpaholic.” Feeling miserable, he ran a fantasy jackpot scenario in his head, and asked himself, “If I win the Powerball and $32 million, what will I do?” After quickly imagining his first seven days as a millionaire, he began to suspect lack of money was not his problem. He set out to discover what was missing. Scott has since created the Feed Your Happy app, authored a mindset course on the 7 Core Skills of Everyday Happiness, and founded nCOURAGE.LIFE.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 422. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.5	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered
0:22.1	his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:29.1	Scott was in a corporate job he hated with a mindset he called grumpaholic. Feeling miserable,
0:34.8	he ran a fantasy jackpot scenario in his head, and he asked himself,
0:38.5	If I win the powerball in $32 million, what will I do?
0:42.4	After quickly imagining his first several days as a millionaire, he began to suspect lack of money was not his problem.
0:49.0	He had to discover what was missing.
0:51.5	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Scott Wilhite. Welcome, Scott.
0:56.5	Hey, I'm glad to be on with you, Don. Thank you, sir. Scott, are you using your talents doing
1:00.6	work that you love? Absolutely. All righty. Well, we want to hear the whole story. Scott Wilhite is an
1:06.8	award-winning commercial filmmaker turned social entrepreneur. As a writer, producer, and director,
1:13.2	he was enjoying a promising creative career without actually enjoying it. This all changed when he was
1:18.8	introduced to the world of positive psychology and discovered what happens when you deliberately,
1:23.9	consciously choose what you mentally focus on. He since created the Feed Your Happy app,
1:29.6	authored a mindset course on the seven core skills of everyday happiness, and founded
1:35.0	Encourage. Life. Scott, that's a summary of your career. Tell our listeners what you're
1:40.6	engaged in now that has you motivated and excited, if you would please?
1:54.5	You know what? I absolutely love what I do. And I'm so glad to be on your podcast because I feel like what I'm doing is exactly what you're helping people do, is to discover how their talents can help others.
2:00.6	I really consider myself a social entrepreneur. You know, I've taken the talents and abilities that I've been given, and now I'm
2:01.8	using those to help, you know, kind of solve society's social ills. And for me, I think that's,
2:08.1	you know, the mindset that we get in, the trap that we, you know, that we feel stuck or trapped
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