Best of 2017: The Future of Happiness with Amy Blankson

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The question no longer is whether or not technology is good or bad for us; it’s now “What do we do with it?” And there’s nobody in the world right now who can better answer that question than Amy Blankson. Through technology, Blankson has been working on implementing positive psychology strategies in new and inventive ways. Take a listen to hear how she does that and how she views the new technology in our lives!

Amy Blankson is the only person to be named a Point of Light by two Presidents (President Bush and President Clinton). She received a Presidential appointment to serve a five-year term on the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National Service, and was one of the youngest delegates to the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future. Amy received her BA from Harvard and MBA from Yale School of Management. In 2007, Amy co-founded GoodThink to bring the science of happiness to life for organizations and individuals. Amy brings both passion and practicality to GoodThink. She is currently doing research in partnership with Google to determine how to make positive psychology strategies stick and create sustainable positive change. She serves as a Visioneer for the Xprize Foundation for Personal Health, and was a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course. Amy is the author of two books: Ripple’s Effect and The Future of Happiness: 5 Modern Strategies to Balance Productivity and Well-being in the Digital Era (Spring, 2017).

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0:00.0	The question is not whether technology is good or whether it's bad for us.
0:05.0	I think that might have been the question a few years ago, but now technology is part of our lives.
0:09.7	So I think the better question is, what do we do with it right as William Shakespeare once said there's
0:15.8	nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so and so I think positive psychology has
0:21.2	some really important lessons for us to learn about what that means in terms of how we use technology and specifically what I call that how, when, where, and why of using technology in our lives.
0:33.0	I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative
0:39.9	podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and
0:44.0	creative minds who started movements, built driving businesses, written best selling books,
0:48.8	and created insanely interesting art.
0:50.7	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
1:08.1	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.
1:15.0	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply.
1:19.0	Check the Uber app.
1:20.0	Amy, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
1:26.0	My pleasure, glad to be here.
1:28.0	Yeah, so it is really cool to have you. I came across your story by way of Sean Acor, who I also learned from reading the foreword to your book. your At this point we're pretty much just going through all the members in your family as potential guests on the show.
1:44.0	So I know one half of the answer to this question having read the Ford, but I want to start with this question because I think it would be really interesting.
1:50.0	What birth order were you and what impact has that had on the choices that you have made with your life in your career?
1:57.0	Oh, great question. So my brother will tell you that he is 28 years old and that he has been for the past 10 years.
2:05.7	But the truth is that he is two years, two days, two minutes, two pounds, and two
2:12.3	ounces older and bigger than I was.
2:16.8	But that has not stopped me from being his bossy younger sister all the way from birth
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