Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give

you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature

a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. So today I'm really excited to have Jonathan Fields on the podcast.

Jonathan is a dad, husband, serial entrepreneur, growth strategist,

and award-winning author.

He runs The Good Life Project, where he and his team lead a global community

in the quest to live a more meaningful, connected, and vital life.

His latest book is How to Live a Good Life, Soulful Story, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom.

Thanks for chatting with me today, Jonathan.

Yeah, it's my pleasure. Thanks for

much for inviting me. Oh man I really enjoyed your book I read it and like you know one

sitting cover to cover it's just it flows really naturally but I know with the

writing process probably writing it doesn't

flow as nicely as the final product looks. Yeah it's always an adventure and I know

you know that journey well yourself and so two things one I'm so glad you enjoyed it you

know writing is always a really kind of interesting process and two knowing that you

come from a background where you know with really rigorous academic perspective on things that are legitimate

and actionable you know it was a really interesting challenge because writing

this was I wanted to take stuff where I knew that there was science behind so much of what I was trying to do, but

deliver it in a way where it just, it felt like it was easy, where it felt like you didn't

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