510: The secret to lifelong happiness | Bestselling author Morgan Housel

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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“What really matters for your happiness is not your circumstances It's the gap between your circumstances and your expectations," says Morgan Housel. Morgan, a bestselling author and former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Motley Fool, joins us to discuss how to optimize your happiness in a world that’s so fragile to chance, plus: - Morgan’s powerful personal story (~00:09) - How to balance uncertainty & control (~09:01) - How Morgan worked though survivor’s guilt (~13:09) - Why happiness depends on expectations (~16:10) - How to realistically measure your happiness (~20:46) - The delicate relationship between money & happiness (~26:26) - How to incentivize people to live healthier (~31:42) - How to find joy in the mundane (~38:41) - How to balance optimism & pessimism (~44:13) - What changes Morgan has made to his own life (~48:05) - What Morgan feels grateful for today (~49:44) Referenced in the episode: - Morgan's book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes. - Morgan's previous bestseller, The Psychology Of Money. - Morgan's website. - Start your 30-day free trial with WHOOP. - Sign up for The Long Game. We hope you enjoy this episode sponsored by WHOOP, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:07.0	This episode of the MBG podcast was created in partnership with Whoop.
0:12.0	For the last three years, I've counted on my whoop
0:14.6	wearable to track by sleep, strain, recovery, and health. Right now it's on my
0:19.7	risk collecting data that will help me make better decisions tomorrow and it's the
0:25.4	wearable that I find myself recommending all the time to those looking to take their
0:30.1	well-being to the next level and gain actionable insights. But Whoop has recently launched a new
0:36.8	groundbreaking feature that I've been using, Whoop Coach. This AI-powered tool takes my goals, my unique biometric data, and the latest performance science to generate personalized advice.
0:50.0	All I have to do is open my Woop app and ask Woop Coach anything, like how's my sleep compared to others my age?
0:55.8	Or why am I so tired today?
0:58.2	As a result, I get highly personal insights and actionable feedback right at my fingertips.
1:04.0	Who doesn't want their very own coach?
1:07.0	Unlock your one month free trial with Whoop today.
1:10.0	Just look for the link in our show notes.
1:12.0	In a split second, everything can change.
1:16.0	You're tiny, everyday decisions, even as simple as your coffee order,
1:20.0	can potentially have a ripple effect that expands over time and the average
1:24.7	adult makes around 35,000 remotely conscious decisions every day. That's a lot of
1:31.2	moments that could potentially alter the course of your life.
1:35.0	So how do you navigate a world driven by such unpredictable forces?
1:40.0	Morgan Hasle has spent some time contemplating this very question.
1:44.5	Morgan's a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of one of my all-time favorite books,
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