wire your world for greater productivity and well-being with use of technology.

Amy Blanksson joins us on this week's episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor we have of long-term

happiness. You have some factors in your control. They can promote the health and resilience

and growth of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.

Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place.

This is Live Happy Now. Hello and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast.

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thank you for picking that up. Well, our guest this week is Amy Blanksson, becoming one of the

world's leading experts on the connection between positive psychology and technology. She writes occasionally here for Live Happy magazine, and she was one of a thousand points of light by both George H.W. Bush and by President Bill Clinton. Her new book, Future of Happiness, is about to come out, and we talked with her about that and looking at technology's role in our happiness.

Well, Amy, thanks again for joining us. I told you we'd have you back on to talk about this fantastic book. So thanks for making time for us. We appreciate it.

My pleasure. Well, the book, as I mentioned, is the future of happiness.

And I think when a lot of people think future, they're picturing, you know, the future of the world, all the devices and all the technology we're going to have. And that's kind of what this book is all about.

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