The Happiness Equation is simpler than you think with Neil Pasricha

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🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Neil is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and The Books of Awesome. He is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and after ten years heading Leadership Development at Walmart he now serves as Director of The Institute for Global Happiness.

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0:00.0	Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcome episode 1500 of EO Fire. We're
0:09.9	right shout out today's most successful entrepreneurs seven days a week and if you're ready to
0:15.2	master productivity discipline and focus in 100 days visit themasteryjournal.com.
0:21.9	Now I'll shout out with today's featured guest Neil Pasricha. Neil are you prepared
0:28.2	to ignite JLD just dose myself and gasoline. Yes. Neil is the New York Times best
0:35.0	elling author of the happiness equation and the books of awesome. He is a Harvard MBA one of the
0:41.0	most popular Ted speakers of all time and after 10 years of heading leadership development at Walmart
0:47.0	he now serves as the director of the Institute for global happiness. Neil take a minute brother
0:52.7	filling some gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse of your personal life.
0:57.2	Yeah sure JLD will listen for me it all came crashing down in about 2008 my wife left me and
1:03.7	my best friend took his own life and it was actually in that spirit of loss and heartache and
1:09.4	and everything falling apart that I started a little blog called 1000 Awesome Things.com. The blog
1:15.5	took off hit 50 million hits one the webbie for best blog in the world two years in a row and it
1:21.0	seemed to sort of spike me into the mainstream with this sort of the book of awesome coming out my
1:25.1	Ted talk on the threes of also coming out and it all sounds fine and dandy you know the book
1:28.9	sold a million copies New York Times bestseller list everyone saying like this guy's the pie
1:32.6	piper of happiness only problem was I was totally miserable. I lost 50 pounds to distress I was
1:39.3	having trouble selling a house and finding a place to live as a new you know as a newfound bachelor
1:44.2	and it wasn't until I actually kind of took inventory of my life took a step back and put myself
1:50.9	out there again you know started dating again started saying yes instead of saying no
1:55.4	started hanging out on Fridays and Saturdays that have just writing that I eventually met
1:59.5	someone new and her name is Leslie she is a teacher in an elementary school intercity school
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