What do happiness and sound real estate investment have in common?

It's all about location on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science.

And it's actually younger than the Internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research the greatest predictor we have of long-term happiness.

You have some factors in your control.

They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset,

which is your brain. And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves. There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things. We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way

to bring a little bit more joy to our day. Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead

us to that happy place. This is Live Happy Now.

Hello and greetings. Welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston. Please that you are making us a part of your day, wherever you are in the world, and however you may be listening, we just thank you for taking us with you. We've got a fine show for you this week. We do want to remind you that if you are a fan of the podcast, there is more audio content that comes to you each and every week from the folks that Live Happy. Live Happy Radio airs every Sunday morning at 8 a.m. on Radio.com and on 98.7K. Love in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Now, when you go on radio.com, you do have to search for KLUV, 98.7 FM in Dallas. Click on it, and then at 8 o'clock central time, the show comes on, because that's when it comes on on on 98.7K-Love, if you happen to be in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Each week, we present a guest, a happy activist, and some facts about positive psychology that you can use and apply to your life. We would appreciate it very, very much if you would check us out. All right, now on with the podcast. Our guest this week is Dan Butner, a National Geographic Fellow and New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones. We've talked about his work on this show many, many times before, and we're excited to have him here. He's launched a major public health initiative to transform

cities based on principles from his book. And our Live Happy Science Editor, Paula Phelps,

caught up with Dan. Dan, I'm so happy to have you with us today because we do talk about

the Blue Zones quite a bit. And one thing I'm excited

about is for you to be able to tell our listeners in a nutshell what the blue zones are.

Well, originally they were areas around the world where people live the longest, but the concept

has really expanded to the set of characteristics that explain longevity and now with this new

book, Blue Zones of Happiness, also explain happiness.

And the idea for both of these projects, these related projects, was to find the statistically

longest, lived and happiest places places and then in a sense

reverse engineer what they do to provide a prescriptive for the rest of us who would like to live

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