The Happiness Equation (Ep. 117)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Author Neil Pasricha talks about what it takes to live a happy life. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Productivity (with Chris Bailey) The Worst Thing You Can Do for Your Productivity (with Chris Bailey) Neil Pasricha: The 3 A’s of Awesome The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha The Book of (Even More) Awesome by Neil Pasricha The Book of (Holiday) Awesome by Neil Pasricha Awesome Is Everywhere by Neil Pasricha The Journal of Awesome by Neil Pasricha Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb 1000awesomethings.com Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman Derek Sivers: No more yes. It’s either HELL YEAH! or no. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Paul Graham: Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule Hacker News Y Combinator Hacker News: Best Books You Read in 2012 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky Eliezer Yudkowsky: An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem Headspace The Guardian: Top Five Regrets of the Dying [email protected] Neil on Twitter The Institute for Global Happiness Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you
0:43.7	become a more effective student. And on today's episode we're going to be talking about a topic that
0:48.6	often gets glossed over on these more productivity and solution-based shows and that's the general
0:54.3	idea and practice of being happy. Now my guest on today's show is Neil
0:59.1	Pass Richer who is a guy that was introduced to be by my good friend Chris Bailey who wrote the
1:03.8	productivity project and if you'll remember has been on the show a couple of
1:07.2	different times and I just got to give a big shout out to Chris and thank him for
1:11.4	introducing me to Neil because Neil is absolutely awesome and I
1:15.4	love this conversation we had it is such a fun talk and Neil is a really cool guy
1:20.9	Neil is a guy who number one is the author of a book I read recently
1:25.4	called The Happiness Equation which started out as a letter to his unborn son
1:30.0	because his wife is currently pregnant and from there just sort of ballooning into an
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