Dr. Rick Hanson: ...how to hardwire happiness into our lives

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Happiness is the topic as we talk with Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include "Resilient", "Hardwiring Happiness", "Buddha’s Brain", "Just One Thing", and "Mother Nurture".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. And I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. And we are so excited today to be talking to Dr. Rick Hansen. He is the author of several books, several New York Times bestselling
0:21.9	books, including Buddha's brain and hardwiring happiness, the new brain science of contentment,
0:28.2	calm, and confidence, which shows you how to tap the hidden power of everyday experiences to
0:33.5	change your brain and your life for the better. Dr. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:39.0	Oh, it's really my pleasure, and please call me Rick.
0:41.3	So I get to call you, you know, Jan and Laura.
0:43.8	Okay, that sounds good.
0:46.1	Well, Rick, you say you can beat the brain's negativity bias,
0:50.5	which you say is like Velcro for negative experiences,
0:53.5	but Teflon for positive ones.
0:55.4	Tell us more about this negativity bias.
0:58.3	Right.
0:58.8	It's a very solid finding in science, and we've all had experiences of it.
1:03.5	Let's say you have a job review, and your boss tells you 10 things about yourself.
1:07.8	Nine are good.
1:08.7	One is room for improvement.
1:10.5	What's the one you obsess about
1:11.8	for the rest of the day, right? Or maybe 10 things happen in your relationship, and nine of them
1:17.1	are good. One of them is awkward, 10, something. And what's the one you tend to think about
1:21.5	when you're falling asleep? It's the negative one. And that's because as our ancestors
1:26.0	evolved, it was really important for them to remember painful, difficult, stressful experiences and what they did to get through them because they may not have another chance the next time.
1:38.1	Something bad like that happens.
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