Welcome to a happy place.

This is the Live Happy Now podcast.

I am your host, J.R. Houston.

So glad that you are joining us once again, wherever you are in the world, however you may be listening.

Also, glad that we have such great partners in Live Happy Magazine. And LifeFree Imagine, Live Happy Magazine, of course, is available to you on newsstands everywhere. You can also get the digital edition on the Apple or the Google Play Store, and you can find out more information at livehappy.com. LifeFree Imagine has a website as well. It's LifeFreefree imagine.org slash happy. They've got all kinds of things that are meant to help you find

your peak happiness because as you awaken to the power of happiness, so do your dreams.

So what's next? Well, find out more at life reimagined.org. In today's episode, we're talking with Emma Sapala,

science director at Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.

Her areas of research include positive organizational psychology, health psychology,

cultural psychology, well-being, and resilience.

And in this episode, Deborah Heist talks with Emma about what happiness is, according to science and the ability to bounce back from difficulties in life. Emma, thank you so much for joining us on Live Happy Now Today. We really appreciate having you on the show. Thank you so much. I'm happy to be here. I want to let our listeners know, first of all, that you have a new upcoming book coming out on the science of success, and it's called The Happiness Track, and it's going to be released in January 2016.

Can you just give us a brief overview of the book?

Sure thing.

People in general have a misconception about how to attain success.

There's an idea that we have to sacrifice their happiness now by

overworking and, you know, maybe undergoing a lot of stress, et cetera, to attain success.

But after surveying hundreds of research studies, I've seen that this notion is completely

wrong. Actually, if we take care of ourselves and actually nurture

our own happiness of well-being, we are more likely to be successful because we'll be more

creative, we'll be more insightful, we'll have a better relationship with other people, we'll have

more charisma and more energy. Basically, this is one of the things we talk about at Live Happy, that

people kind of have it

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