Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

There is so much content out there related to psychology and self-help and personal growth.

There are well over 300 episodes of this podcast alone, for example.

And as more and more content is created, it tends to become more and more complex.

In part because people want to stand out in an increasingly crowded market.

And this complexity can lead to a lot of confusion.

For example, you might be asking yourself questions like, what should I be focusing on

or maybe this smart person contradicted that smart person who should I listen to or to

put it all simply, what really actually matters here.

And it's that last question that we're going to be focusing on today.

To help us do that, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick as a clinical psychologist,

a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

So dad, how are you doing?

I'm really good for us.

And I'm actually really happy that we're going to focus on this synthesis and essentializing

of the fundamental question, what works, what matters, what helps.

So I'm psyched.

Yeah, same.

As a quick note, during this episode, we're mostly going to be focusing on big ideas rather

than specific practices.

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