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The Kevin Miller Podcast

Happierness w/ Kevin Miller | The Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Nutrition, Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Medicine, Life Sciences, How To

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up our series on Happierness featuring Atlantic columnist and Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks, and Oprah Winfrey, who just co authored the book, “Build The Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier.” In the last episode I also talked with my brother, Jared Angaza, and we discussed further aspects of this grand, cultural pursuit of happiness and what is at the root of it. This is my Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action episode to distill it all down, and I found six primary issues around happiness that stood out from our conversations. Let’s walk through them together You can watch this full episodes on YouTube - just search for “What Drives You with Kevin Miller” What Drives You is brought to you by Ziglar, your premier source for equipping Life and Leadership coaches. Visit Ziglar.com and let them inspire your true coaching performance. *This podcast is rated clean but the subject matter is adult themed and may not be suitable or relevant for children or those with fragile belief systems. Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code KEVIN and depending on the model receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Sign up today at butcherbox.com/selfhelpful and use code selfhelpful to get free chicken wings for a year. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/kevin. Head to factormeals.com/whatdrivesyou50 and use code whatdrivesyou50 to get 50% off. Go to ShipStation.com and use code KEVIN today and sign up for your FREE 60-day trial. Visit Audible.com/whatdrivesyou or text whatdrivesyou to 500-500. Go to HelloFresh.com/drivefree and use code drivefree for FREE breakfast for life! Go to Seed.com/DRIVE and use code DRIVE to get 25% off your first month Go to AquaTru.com and use code “KEVIN” to receive 20% OFF any AquaTru purifier! Visit BetterHelp.com/WHATDRIVESYOU today to get 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.

0:06.5

Visit ziegler.com and let them inspire your true coaching performance.

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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