The Happiness Equation with Neil Pasricha #162
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
“Happiness is the joy you feel while striving toward your potential.” — Neil Pasricha
What does it take to be really happy? In this episode, Brian interviews Neil Pasricha, an expert on happiness, positivity and leadership. Neil explains how, in spite of life’s difficulties and challenges, anyone can successfully pursue happiness. If you want to be happy, then this podcast is for you!
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Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“We live in a world where a lot of people are hurting.” — Brian Buffini
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Cicero
“We have so much to be thankful for, especially in the Western hemisphere.” — Brian Buffini
“We play life for the big win ... but 99% of your life is the small stuff.” — Neil Pasricha
“We can’t predict in advance what will make us happy.” — Neil Pasricha
“It seems there’s more of a war against happiness than ever before.” — Brian Buffini
“The cell phone is a massive problem.” — Neil Pasricha
“Loneliness has never been higher.” — Neil Pasricha
“We have so many more superficial friendships and so many less deep friendships.” — Neil Pasricha
“Happiness is the joy you feel while striving towards your potential.” — Neil Pasricha
“He who wants the least has the most.” — Neil Pasricha
“True freedom is deciding how to spend your time.” — Neil Pasricha
“The true answers are inside you. If it resonates with you that means you already knew it.” — Neil Pasricha
Mentioned in this episode:
"The Book of Awesome" by Neil Pasricha
"The Happiness Equation" by Neil Pasricha
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| 0:00.0 | Cool. I really feel like... |
| 0:02.7 | ...that you're about to cry. |
| 0:03.9 | Weak with the unadult or your joy of using a paint which finishes like a spray, |
| 0:07.2 | even though you're using a roller. |
| 0:08.7 | I was actually gonna say I really feel like having another one of those fancy biscuits, Rob. |
| 0:12.6 | Heritage by Duelux. It's a feeling. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the Bryan Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation, and methodologies of success. |
| 0:38.0 | Here's your host, Bryan Bafini. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you, welcome to the Bryan Bafini show. |
| 0:53.0 | We are gonna have fun today, and we're gonna talk a little about happiness today. |
| 0:58.0 | I got the pleasure of interviewing Neil Pasricha, and Neil and I have met doing speaking engagements before. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm a big fan of his work. He's a New York Times best selling author of the Happiness Equation, which I love this book. |
| 1:11.0 | I just like the look at this book. I like a smiley face looking back at me. |
| 1:15.0 | The book of awesome, one of the most clever books I've seen in a long time. |
| 1:19.0 | Neil had a blog. It still has. Call of a thousand awesome things. |
| 1:23.0 | Over 50 million hits, and it twice won the best blog in the World Award. |
| 1:27.0 | And all the bloody blogs out there. And so for those of you who are bloggers and you have aspirations, you should check out his blog. |
| 1:34.0 | And his TED talk, the three A's of awesome. And he has a fantastic podcast of his own called Three Books. |
| 1:39.0 | And some of our good friends have been on that show talking about their three favorite books. |
| 1:43.0 | We have a big book reading book by an audience. And so Neil's got a couple of books, well worth listening to, and reading. |
| 1:50.0 | And he also has a podcast, well worth checking out, as you listen to some really cool people talk about the books that have influenced them. |
| 1:57.0 | Neil, welcome to the show. Delighted to have you. Look, in the world we live in today, we certainly could use some more of this content. |
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