All right, welcome back to the show glad you are here today. It is so great to be with you on Twitter at Rich Ziole

It's very important for us to dive into happiness and

Evolutionary psychology and I think it's wonderful to have a man who is I think one of the most brilliant minds out there joining us on the show today

To talk about happiness and his new book

Gad sad

Welcome to the show sir. It's great to have you on how are you today?

Oh, I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me. How you doing?

The sad truth about happiness. Am I saying your name right sad?

That sounds right. I mean if you are saying it in Arabic it would be slightly different but for the English audience it will do

So so I love the irony in this the sad truth about happiness eight steps for

leading the good life and

Congratulations on writing the book. I have to tell you I read it over the weekend

And I think it's fantastic. You are an evolutionary guy

So what does that mean in terms of your approach to happiness?

So basically evolution psychology is the application of evolutionary theory to study the human mind

So in other words

In the same way that we could study why our pancreas are the way that they are or why our liver functions the way that it does from an evolutionary perspective

we could also ask

Why have we evolved the behavioral patterns that we exhibit why do we have why do we experience the emotions that we do?

So it's basically simply applying the evolutionary lens to the most important organ on our body which is of course our mind

And why do I mean you know the whole point about our country obviously it's the it's you know

We're always looking for happiness. You know the pursuit of happiness. What is happiness? How do you define it?

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