How To Build A Happy Life: A new podcast from The Atlantic

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Hello Social Distance listeners! We'd like to introduce you to a new show. In this series, host Arthur Brooks digs into research and offers tools to help you live more joyfully. Join us for deep conversations with psychologists, experts, and friends of The Atlantic's Chief Happiness Correspondent. For more info, visit www.theatlantic.com/happy, or search for How to Build a Happy Life on your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a lot of advice out there on how we should live our lives.
0:08.0	Most of it sounds great on paper, but more often than not I ask myself, can't the pursuit of happiness be just a little bit easier?
0:17.0	I'm a little busy over here.
0:19.0	Welcome to how to build a happy life.
0:22.0	In this series, I want to see Welcome to how to build a happy life.
0:23.3	In this series, I want to simplify things for you.
0:27.0	My expert guests and I will uncover the how-tos of happiness
0:31.0	from the inside out,
0:33.0	from controlling our inner monologue through meditation.
0:36.8	What this does is develop a skill called mindfulness,
0:40.7	which you could just translate into self-awareness.
0:44.0	To discover what it actually means to open your heart and be vulnerable, even when you're
0:50.0	not in the mood.
0:52.0	The container of the relationship needed to morph.
0:56.2	In some relationships, it can, and in some relationships
0:59.2	it simply cannot.
1:01.6	Happiness, first and foremost, requires self-worth. cannot. begin to transform our lives through self-discovery and love.
1:15.0	I have to find a way to do everything I can to make sure my kids know that they're worth
1:21.0	fundamentally. It's not extrinsic, but it's intrinsic. It is determined by their ability
1:26.2	to give and receive love.
1:29.5	Each week I'll not only provide the theory behind happier living through these conversations, but also the application.
1:37.0	Unless we embed something more sustainable purpose and having that higher meaning of doing something that's beyond yourself is what
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