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Hey everybody, thanks for joining me on episode 283 of the virtual couch.

Today we're going to talk about the science behind happiness.

One of my favorite topics.

Actually, two things is happiness in general.

I love talking about happiness, the elusive goal of trying to find happiness in the most effective way.

And I love evidence-based models of psychology. So we're going to hit on all cylinders today,

and we're going to get right to it. It only took me 282 previous episodes to realize that I really

do want to just get to the topic at hand. And I know I would use these excuses of got to pay the bills and that sort of thing. But hopefully if you're finding me and you enjoy the content that I put out on the virtual couch, you'll dig a little bit deeper. Go to tonyoverbay.com. I do have a magnetic marriage course that's about to start up and a recovery program and a book and all those wonderful things. But I want to get to the topic. Although I just said that, I think it's tomorrow, or maybe it's even today, and this will go out the day after, but my new podcast, waking up the narcissism, which the trailer did get a tremendous amount of downloads and follows and all those wonderful things, so I'm grateful for that, but go find it. And it's part of the virtual couch network. And so we'll just leave that there.

But today I'm going to talk about the science of happiness. And I'm doing what I, here's the part where I feel very old, where I want the kids I believe call a reaction video or reaction

podcast. That sounds dramatic. But what I really am going to do is I'm going to talk about an

article that someone wrote about a book.

So I'm even two layers removed from the actual book itself.

The book is a book called The How of Happiness, a scientific approach to getting the life you want.

And that is by a wonderful clinician named Sonia and it's L-Y-U-B-O-M-I-R-S-K-Y.

And I butchered this in a previous recording about 20 minutes ago to the point of where I started over.

So Sonia Librinsky, her book, I just did it again, didn't I? I actually went and looked up

YouTube videos of Sonia speaking to see how people would pronounce her name. And I feel like people

alluded to the fact that they couldn't pronounce her name. And then they said, hey, here's

Sonia. And she has a great book.

So I just did the same thing.

But her book, The How of Happening.

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