459: The Happiness Equation with Neil Pasricha

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Hal Elrod

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt apathy, depression, fear, or uncertainty about your future? Today’s guest, Neil Pasricha, will give you the simple ways in which you can transcend those feelings and replace them with ones that’ll make you happier.

Neil is the best-selling author of seven books that sold over 2 million copies and spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, including The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation and Two-Minute Mornings. His first TED talk, The 3 A’s of Awesome, ranks among the “10 Most Inspiring of all time,” and his latest book, Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together, just released.

In today’s conversation, Neil shares his super simple framework you can use to be happier, the life-changing power of gratitude, and why the perfect day always starts with the perfect morning.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The two-minute morning routine and how it can change your life.
The power of vulnerability in creating deep relationships.
The way you look at the world determines how you experience it.
Why our brains are hardwired to seek problems, and how we can rewrite the stories they tell us.
Appreciating the small stuff is a skill. With practice, you’ll get better with time.
You might be practicing gratitude wrong. Here’s how to do it.
Why you need to learn how to be happy so you can be successful.
Readers are leaders! Learn how Neil manages to read 100+ books a year.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give
0:23.6	you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready?
0:29.0	Hello, my friends, welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:39.7	This is your host, Hal Elrod, and if one of your goals is to be happier, today's episode
0:45.5	is for you.
0:46.7	This is a discussion with my new friend, Neil Pasricha, and Neil and I connected a couple
0:52.8	years ago when I was going through the darkest time in my life, and somebody connected
0:57.4	us, and just as he's the expert on happiness, he wrote the happiness equation, he wrote
1:02.7	the book of awesome, on gratitude, he wrote a book called Awesome is Everywhere on Mindfulness,
1:07.7	he wrote a book called Two Minute Mornings about Habits, he has a new book out called Our
1:11.9	Book of Awesome that just is coming out December 6th, 2022, and it started for him in his late
1:19.9	20s when his wife left him and his best friend took his own life, he'll actually go into
1:24.4	him, we're detailing that story today, and in an attempt to cheer himself up and find
1:28.6	meaning in his life, he started a blog called 1000 Awesome Things, and for the next 1000
1:33.6	straight weekdays, he posted a short essay about one small joy in life.
1:39.1	He was kind of trying to train himself to see the good, to find the joy, the gratitude
1:45.9	in the mundane, so he could overcome these devastating experiences in his life.
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