Best of “How To”: Identify What You Enjoy

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode, from our first season, How to Build a Happy Life features host Arthur Brooks and the psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb in conversation about how the first step in making room for more joy in your life is learning how to identify it. Write to us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by PepsiCo. From the fields to your table, PepsiCo is focused on food that is grown well, made well, and creates more smiles. To discover the full journey, visit PepsiCo.com and search fans of food.
0:16.5	Hey, it's Megan Garber, one of the co-hosts of How to Know What's Real.
0:21.8	We're excited to share with you a special series drawn from past seasons of the how-to series.
0:27.6	Over the past few weeks, we've been revisiting episodes around the theme of winding down.
0:33.3	This episode is from our very first season, How to Build a Happy Life, and is called How to Identify What You Enjoy.
0:41.5	It first published in 2021 during the pandemic.
0:45.3	Even though that was a really challenging time, this is still one of my favorite episodes to this day.
0:52.0	Host Arthur Brooks explores how the first step in making room for more joy in your life
0:56.8	is learning how to identify it.
1:08.8	This is How to Build a Happy Life, the Atlantic's podcast on all things happiness. I'm Arthur
1:14.4	Brooks, Harvard professor and happiness correspondent at the Atlantic. In this special bonus
1:23.6	episode of the How to Build a Happy Life series, I sat down with the Atlantic's own Laurie Gottlieb.
1:29.8	We reviewed a lot of what we've covered in this series, from enjoyment and emotional management
1:34.9	to the practical ways to apply the science of happiness to the Atlantic Festival. I'm really delighted because this episode
1:56.0	it features one of the top psychotherapists in America today, the Atlantic's Lori Gottlieb.
2:03.5	We're going to talk through some of the how-toes of navigating the natural ups and downs in life.
2:09.2	And later in the episode, we're going to feature some of my very favorite guest stars, which is you, our listeners.
2:15.4	So let's start by saying hi to Lori. Welcome to How to Build a Happy Life,
2:20.5	Lori. Well, thank you so much. It's great to be here. Yeah, it's wonderful to have you here.
2:26.6	I've been looking forward to working with you in some way for the longest time. And when I,
2:32.2	on the first day of class, I teach a class at the Harvard Business School
2:35.2	called Leadership and Happiness.
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