#478: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Having a positive mindset comes with an unbelievable number of benefits, from better physical and mental health, to improved relationships and performance at work. If you've got a more negative bent, you're really missing out on a lot. Fortunately, my guest says it's possible to shift into a more positive gear. Her name is Dr. Catherine Sanderson and she’s a professor of psychology at Amherst College. In her latest book, The Positive Shift, she highlights scores of studies that show how a positive mindset can make us healthier and happier, and how that mindset can be achieved. Today she shares those insights with us, beginning with debunking the idea that a positive outlook means being naively Pollyanna-ish in disposition. Catherine then walks us through what the research says about the surprisingly robust benefits of having a positive perspective which affect every area of your life. We then discuss specific tactics you can use to develop a more positive outlook, even if you have an inborn inclination towards being negative. Get the show notes at aom.is/positiveshift.

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0:00.0	Music
0:15.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.4	Having a positive mindset comes with an unbelievable number of benefits from better physical
0:22.3	and mental health to improve relationships and performance at work.
0:25.2	If you've got a more negative bend, you're really missing out on a lot.
0:28.5	Fortunately, my guest says it's possible to shift into a more positive gear.
0:32.8	Her name is Dr. Catherine Sanderson, she's a professor of psychology at Amherst College.
0:36.6	In her latest book, The Positive Shift, she highlights scores of studies that show
0:40.0	how a positive mindset can make us healthier and happier and how that mindset can be achieved.
0:44.5	Today she shares those insights with us, beginning with debunking the idea that a positive
0:48.3	outlook means being naively polyanish in disposition.
0:51.3	Catherine then walks through what the research says about the surprisingly robust benefits
0:55.0	of having a positive perspective, which affect every area of your life.
0:58.1	We then discuss specific tactics you can use to develop a more positive outlook,
1:01.8	even if you have an in-board inclination towards being negative.
1:04.8	After she shows over, check out our show notes at aowm.is slash positive shift.
1:08.7	Music
1:21.5	Catherine Sanderson, welcome to the show.
1:23.8	Thanks so much for the invitation to be here.
1:25.6	So you are a professor of psychology, and you've written this book The Positive Shift,
1:31.2	mastering mindset to improve happiness, health, and longevity.
1:34.8	So what got you researching and writing about the benefits of positivity or positive outlook on life?
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