Paul Dolan on Designing Your Life for Happiness

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

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🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Paul Dolan is a Professor of Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He's an expert on human behavior and happiness. Paul is also the author of the best selling book, Happiness By Design: Change What You Do Not What You Think. We all want happiness in our lives yet happiness is something that so often eludes most people. It seems like a feeling that happens to us rather than a feeling that we can cultivate with intention. In this interview, Paul teaches some really practical, research-based, action-oriented approaches to life that we can take today to increase our feelings of happiness. The first step? Listen to this informative and interesting interview.

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In This Interview, Paul Dolan and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
His book, Happiness By Design: Change What You Do Not What You Think
The power of designing your environment
Find a balance of purpose and pleasure and you have a happy life
How a large part of how you feel is connected to what you do
The role of attention in happiness
What we think would make us happy vs what does make us happy
That we're not very good at predicting what will make us happy
The AREA model
How we must make sense of what's happened in order to adapt to it
Key to happiness is also to pay more attention to what makes you happy and less attention to what doesn't make you happy
Why somethings that are so obvious are so often overlooked
If you can't change what you do, change what you pay attention to in the experience
If you want to do something, make it easy for yourself to do it
Less about willpower and more about design power
Habit loops
Queuing your environment, commitment and norm
Deciding, Designing and Doing
If you want to do something, make it easy. If you don't want to do something make it hard

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0:00.0	But if you want to do something make it easy. If you don't want to do something make it hard.
0:12.5	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:17.6	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.
0:24.8	And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:30.8	self pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:37.5	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:44.0	conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other
0:50.0	people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:10.0	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Paul Dolan, professor of behavioral science at
1:15.9	the London School of Economics and Political Science. He's an expert on human behavior and happiness.
1:22.1	Paul is also the author of the best-selling book Happiness by Design.
1:27.0	Stress happens to everyone. It's one of those facts of life. I'm sure you can think of a time
1:32.3	recently when you were very stressed. We're working on helping people to better manage their stress.
1:38.1	If you're signed up for our email list already you know that we recently sent something to you about
1:43.6	stress in your life. We're going to be continuing on this topic and we've got a new resource that's
1:48.6	coming out soon called eliminating stress. Two smart strategies to keep you calm and confident.
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2:07.9	will get the next document about managing stress and the main focus will be dealing with our thoughts
2:15.3	and responsibilities. So if you're not on our email list oneufeed.net to get signed up for these
2:21.6	free resources. And here's the interview with Paul Dolan. Hi Paul, welcome to the show.
2:27.3	Hello Eric. It's nice to be on your show. I'm excited to have you on your book is called Happiness
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