#441 Life Diversity Leads to a Happier Life (New Research Study)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Life Diversity Leads to a Happier Life (New Research Study)
Research has recently discovered a correlation between our happiness and the amount of diversity we create in our lives. When we enhance our mental and physical routines, our happiness state increases. Additionally, these diverse activities affect our brain (the hippocampus and the striatum), supporting diversification's positive results.
Aaron S. Heller, Tracey C. Shi, C. E. Chiemeka Ezie, Travis R. Reneau, Lara M. Baez, Conor J. Gibbons, Catherine A. Hartley. Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal–striatal functional connectivity. Nature Neuroscience, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-0636-4
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. River Puff. Do you ever go through a day where you're just down? |
| 0:15.0 | Your heart's sad and you just don't know what to do? |
| 0:18.0 | Well, today we're going to talk about something that research shows you can do to help yourself feel better and you'll probably |
| 0:24.6 | feel a pretty fast improvement if you do these things. |
| 0:28.9 | I think one of the hardest things is when we're feeling depressed or just not feeling very emotionally fit, is knowing |
| 0:35.3 | what to do. How do we get out of this rut? Well it is possible, but it takes change. And this change |
| 0:41.9 | we're going to talk about today is to break that rut. takes change |
| 0:43.4 | change and the change we're going to talk about today is to break that rut we're going to do different things we're going to change up things and get outside and explore |
| 0:49.4 | we're going to become happiness explorers |
| 0:53.0 | Many of us have what we call a to-do list, things we need to do in order to feel like we're keeping up with life. |
| 1:00.0 | But the problem with that to-do list is it can be long and can seem like it never goes away |
| 1:06.0 | Even if we do things on it new things crop up so quickly |
| 1:10.4 | So we end up just doing a routine over and over again. |
| 1:14.0 | The other right we get stuck in is just staying home |
| 1:18.0 | and doing things that we always do, |
| 1:20.0 | perhaps watching videos, perhaps watching television, perhaps just sitting around and |
| 1:25.0 | being on a phone for hours. It's amazing how easily it is for us to do repetitive |
| 1:30.7 | things and not even notice that we haven't done anything all day long. |
| 1:35.0 | And in many ways I'm the opposite of that. |
| 1:38.0 | I have a tendency, though I like to read and study, |
| 1:41.0 | I definitely like to get out there and do things so every day I get out and do do |
| 1:45.1 | something and on weekends I definitely get out and explore you know that my surroundings |
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