Hi and welcome to Episode 175 of Live Happy Now.

This is Paula Phelps, and today we're talking with Rick Hansen about his latest book, Resilient,

How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness.

You already know Rick for his work on brain plasticity and neuroscience,

and now he gives us an amazing blueprint for finding

and sustaining happiness by building resilience.

Let's listen to what Rick has to say about the role resilience plays in our overall happiness.

Well, Rick, it's such an honor to have you on this show.

Thank you so much for joining us and welcome to live happy now.

Paula, I'm really happy to be here, actually, and greetings to everybody listening.

You know, I've been reading your book, Resilient, and you have given so many practical

applications for neuroscience with your previous books, and this one has kind of a different feel,

and I wondered why you chose the topic of resilience this time around.

That's interesting. You picked up on that. You're right. It were a couple of reasons.

One, I wanted to write a book that really summarized most probably of what I've learned in 40 plus

years of being a psychologist and also very involved myself with personal growth and healing and to some extent

mindfulness practice. So that was one part. But another part was that these times seem to call

for more self-reliance than ever, kind of old school values. And from the inside out, when the

world seems to be changing rapidly around us and isn't, the cavalry doesn't seem to be coming.

And so meanwhile, therefore, it's particularly important to grow inner strengths of

various kinds inside.

So for me, that was a timeliness, I guess, to this topic of resilience.

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