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The Science of Happiness

Finding Your Strengths

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Do you fixate on your flaws and shortcomings? Our happiness guinea pig tries the opposite: focusing on her personal strengths.

~ Try this episode’s happiness practice: Use Your Strengths

Link to Episode Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mj38w54k

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I was at an orphanage in Seoul Korea and was adopted by an African American

0:52.4

family that was in the Army and shortly after maybe a year or so we ended up moving back to America.

1:02.0

At seven my parents got a divorce and so my mother my brother

1:07.8

myself moved back to their hometown of Jackson Mississippi and that's pretty

1:12.2

much where I grew up.

1:13.8

Before I moved to Jackson, I didn't really think anything about my situation.

1:19.8

And so when I went to school, it was when I realized that I was different because a majority

1:25.1

of the people, as far as population there, are mostly either black or white.

1:30.3

And so growing up, I only knew like two other Asian people that live there.

1:35.4

And so going to school you've got these kids picking on you and they're picking on you

1:40.9

because of how you look and you know your external

1:44.6

appearance things that you can't control and so you know shortly after is like

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