Emma Seppälä

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Emma Seppälä about success and happiness Emma Seppälä, Ph.D is Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the author of The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success. She is also Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a Lecturer at Yale College where she teaches The Psychology of Happiness. She consults with Fortune 500 leaders and employees on building a positive organization and teaches in the Yale School of Management’s Executive Education program. She graduated from Yale (BA), Columbia (MA), and Stanford (PhD). In This Interview, Emma Seppälä and I Discuss... Her book, The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success The false notion that in order to be successful you have to work so hard that you postpone your happiness The 6 major false theories that are behind our current notions of success The false theory of "You can't have success without stress" That our stress response is only meant to be fight or flight, not "most of the time" That high adrenaline compromises our immune system, our ability to focus, make good decisions The role of meditation in one's success What prevents us from getting into a creative mindset How to manage your energy vs managing your time What we can learn from the resilience in children and animals Where veterans and civilians can go to learn the art of breathing to recover from trauma For Veterans: Project Welcome Home Troops For Civilians: Art of Living How "looking out for #1" can actually be harmful to you Why workplaces are incorporating compassion training Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our stress response is only meant to be for fight or flight, not all day constantly.
0:13.2	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:15.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:19.7	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:25.3	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:29.6	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:34.3	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:37.2	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:40.7	But it's not just about thinking.
0:42.6	Our actions matter.
0:44.1	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:48.9	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:53.3	How they feed their good wolf.
0:59.6	Hey, everybody. Are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:11.7	I'm Roy Scovol.
1:12.5	And I'm Daniel van Kirk.
1:13.5	And it's the Pen Pals podcast.
1:15.1	Maybe you've had a pen pal before.
1:16.6	Well, you have two of them right now.
1:18.4	You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
1:21.3	Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is.
1:24.0	Send it to us.
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