For this segment, we call Happy Facts, we bring in our two favorite happiness contributors,

Live Happy section editor Chris Libby.

Hello.

And our Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps.

Hi.

And what we do in this segment is we gather around

in the studio and share our favorite facts as they relate to positive psychology that we have found

in the last week and we discussed them and then paula takes all of the pretty little facts puts them in a

pretty little blog that you can find on live happy.com and you can get more information. So please do so.

Don't do it while you're driving if you're in the car right now.

Please pull over and do it on the side of the highway on your phone.

That would be the best bet.

But let's start with our facts this week and we'll start with Libby's Fact.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah.

My fact is science may have unlocked the secret to thriving. Thriving. Yes, which we know goes hand in hand with happiness. Absolutely. You're going to be happier if you're thriving. It only stands to reason. But what's the scientific basis here? Well, researchers from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, or maybe it's Portsmouth.

I don't know.

It depends on the accent, I think.

Yeah, they found that people who thrive consistently feel good about life themselves and happen to be really good at something.

So thriving, they found this formula that thriving people, they don't have to have all of these traits,

but they're usually optimistic, motivated, proactive, socially competent, and then when you mix

that with opportunity, social support, you're trusted as being a competent person. So there,

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