Hello and welcome to another episode of IWay with Jamila Jamil. Now we know that this podcast is largely

around mental health and how I can help all of us feel happier. And I have all these kind of

theories that I talk about on this podcast via other experts or, you know, via my own findings about my own

personal life. but it's very

rare that I can back it up with research because I left school at 16. So I went out and found

an actual expert on this specific subject of happiness. His name is Professor Bruce Hood,

a real-life professor in a real-life university teaching real-life students in real-life

courses. He's cognitive neuroscientist

and a psychologist and his work is all around the human mind and particularly in this area of

happiness in the last few years of his life. And he's written a book called The Science of Happiness

and he takes it away from being this sort of ethereal, elusive concept

that we're all trying to work towards as if it's a final destination rather than just a

transient experience based on the lives that we're living. And so in his book, he breaks

the road to happiness down in a really unpretentious and a very optimistic way.

And it's rare that these books don't give me the ick.

And I thought his was fantastic.

I really like his work.

I really like him as a person.

He's a very straight shooter.

And in this book, we talk

about what's a little bit unhelpful about the current chat around mental health and the way

that we encourage people to protect themselves and to boundary themselves. We just challenge,

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