Happierness w/ Kevin Miller | The Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action
The Kevin Miller Podcast
Kevin Miller
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What drives you is brought to you by Ziegler, your premier source for equipping life and leadership coaches. |
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| 0:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome, Driven Community and thanks for joining this conversation. |
| 0:22.0 | We all want to live a driven, inspired, and peaceful life. |
| 0:26.4 | And together we're learning to drive further and enjoy the ride. |
| 0:31.1 | This is what drives you. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm your host, Kevin Miller. We're wrapping up the series on |
| 0:37.3 | happierness, which featured Atlantic columnist and Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks and his co-author Oprah Winfrey. |
| 0:48.0 | Their new book is Build the Life You Want, The art and science of getting happier. |
| 0:54.0 | So in the last episode I also talked with my brother, |
| 0:58.0 | Jarrett and Gazan, we discussed further aspects of this grand cultural pursuit of happiness and what is at the root of it. |
| 1:07.0 | So this is my wrap up, we call it the big idea, the big takeaway, and the big action episode |
| 1:12.0 | where I distill it all down and I found six |
| 1:14.9 | primary issues around happiness that really stood out from these conversations. |
| 1:20.9 | So let's walk through them together. |
| 1:24.0 | All right, friends, so six notes again that stood out to me from these conversations on happiness. Number one, happy, being happy, happiness. It's an emotion. It's a |
| 1:39.0 | feeling just like all of a sudden you're angry or you're sad or you're disappointed or you feel, you know, |
| 1:46.0 | depressed in the moment, whatever it is. Arthur talks about these emotions. They are signals. |
| 1:52.0 | So it's signal, hey, I feel this, and it's something you can recognize and then |
| 1:58.3 | adjust to or just be aware of or enjoy depending on what it is and this aspect of happiness is usually what we're |
| 2:07.2 | saying to a dopamine hit of oh my gosh here's my favorite coffee, take a sip and a little dopamine hit, little |
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