This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey gang, work can play a huge role in our sanity and happiness or lack thereof. So today

we're going to tackle some common and thorny questions with a guy who has been extremely successful at work and now teaches other people how to do so.

We're going to talk about questions such as how much work life balance should we really strive for? Is hustle culture really dead?

What's the role of luck in success? How much is enough and should you bring your whole self to the office as some believe?

Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business.

He's also a serial entrepreneur. He's founded nine companies, including profit, red envelope and section four.

He's served on the boards of directors of the New York Times company, urban outfitters and Panera bread.

He's the best selling author of many books, including the four, the algebra of happiness, post corona, and his latest book, which is called Adrift America in a hundred charts.

He's also the host of two podcasts, prof G and pivot, the latter pivot, which he co-hosts with the legendary tech reporter, Cara Swisher is a must listen for me.

I'm a regular pivot head. So it was cool to meet Scott. I'll be it virtually in this conversation.

We talked about why work is such a big factor in determining our mental health.

What the number one retention factor at work is how capitalism pushes us toward living to work rather than the other way around.

Why he believes men's self worth is so often and maybe too often based on their ability to earn, where he stands on the idea of bringing your whole self to work, how to get over getting fired.

His thoughts on side hustles, work, life balance and whether remote work will stick around post COVID.

Why he says being in the office is very important for younger workers if they want to get ahead, especially younger men.

Why despite the fact that he has made a great living, he still has economic anxiety, the rare moments when he's able to relax and tell himself this is enough.

His self described addiction to the approval of other people.

And we talk about the fact that Galway has some critics, how he handles that while retaining his willingness to go out on a limb and say some pretty controversial stuff sometimes.

I should say before we dive in here that this is the first in a four part work series we are launching from the next two weeks.

I'm going to be talking to guests about issues such as imposter syndrome, actually jointly interviewed an expert in imposter syndrome with my wife.

So that's coming up.

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