Moment 151: Neuroscientist Reveals The 3 Things You Need To Do For A Fulfilling Life: Tali Sharot

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this moment, neuroscientist, Professor Tali Sharot, discusses why happiness is not the most important thing in life, and actually it is just 1 of 3 critical factors for a complete life. Most people think that the meaning of life for humans is to try and find the maximum amount of happiness, however this just factor one. Tali says that the second factor is meaning. Often in your life you do a task not because it will give you happiness but because it gives you a sense of completeness that comes from meaning. Finally, Tali says that we need what is called a ‘psychological rich life’, which is basically a varied life. She says that this diversity in life is absolutely crucial as humans have evolved to have a desire to explore and face uncertainty. Listen to the full episode here - Apple - https://g2ul0.app.link/UxbjZ8pxAHb Spotify - https://g2ul0.app.link/gfyuxwlxAHb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Tali: https://affectivebrain.com/?page_id=161 You can pre-order Dr. Sharot’s new book, ‘Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There’, here: https://amzn.to/3SEbVp5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0	You know when you started studying neuroscience and psychology, where there's some like
0:39.6	fundamentals about the nature of life and the nature of human beings that I'm sure there's so many of them but were there any real fundamentals that were debunked or reversed as it relates to your own personal perspective,
0:52.8	whether it's about personal responsibility
0:54.5	or about, I don't know, agency or autonomy,
0:57.3	about how much control we have,
0:58.6	or about how much influence we have over our happiness.
1:00.8	Were there anything foundational
1:01.9	that had a real impact on your personal life?
1:04.0	You know, there's one thing that recently is just something that I recently changed my mind on
1:11.0	and that was actually while writing the current book that I'm
1:14.8	writing which I'm writing together with Cass Einstein who is the co-offer of
1:19.6	Nudge and it was actually in fact about happiness because and I remember this clearly I was in a
1:24.6	workshop at the LSC and they did a survey they asked who thinks that happiness is the most
1:30.1	important thing right that everything you do is for happiness. And you know,
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