A mock in your world of creativity with best-selling author and brand

innovator Mark Stinson. Mark introduces you to some of the world's leading

creative talents from publishing, film, music, restaurants, medical

research and more. You'll discover how to tap into your most original

thinking, how to organize your ideas and most of all how to make the

connections and create the opportunities to launch your creative work. Unlocking

your world of creativity. Welcome back everybody to Unlocking Your World of

Creativity, the podcast for creative professionals and who doesn't want to be

happier? Is there more to be unhappy than just sort of a pat on the back and

an encouraging word? Are there scientific laws to happiness? And that's the subject

with our guest today, Dr. Rob Carpenter. Rob, welcome to the program.

Thank you so much for having me, Mark. It's a delight to be on and I really appreciate

that opportunity to be here. Rob is the author of the 48 Laws of Happiness.

But he's also the honor host of a great television series called The Harvard Health TV.

And as I was looking at your bio, Dr. Rob, you've got so many other creative

pursuits, film, articles, writing, classes, academies. You've got a lot of creative

plates spinning, don't you? Absolutely. It's always fun to really just be able to express

what's in your heart to be able to put out into the world. And for me, I never knew I was

creative probably until I made the decision to consciously be one. I was always very artistic.

I was always very innovative in the business sense. And then I said, wait a second,

I can actually have something that I think people might want. And so it took a minute to

sort of transition myself from more traditional nine to five roles to sort of some more of these

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