At a time when we're constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries,

we're going to show you how to uncover and develop talents you didn't even realize you had on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the

internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor we have

of long-term happiness.

You have some factors in your control.

They can promote the health and resilience and growth

of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day. Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place. This is Live Happy Now. Hello and greetings and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston, back in studio with you and please that you are listening to us wherever you are in the world.

However you may be listening, we're thrilled that you're making us a part of your day.

And we are also thrilled that more and more of you are making Live Happy magazine a part of your day.

The latest issue is available on newsstands now.

It's also available in a digital edition.

You can find it in the Google Play Store and also the Apple App Store.

That's a mouthful, really, when you say it all together.

But it's right there, and it's available for your reading pleasure.

Our guest on this episode of the broadcast, Barbara Oakley is our guest,

and she is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan,

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