Welcome to Episode 210 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

Whether you know it or not, you have a certain set of character strengths that you're using every day.

While character strengths have been written about academically, in many ways, it's a topic that has remained a bit of a mystery for

the average person. With his new book, The Power of Character Strengths, Appreciate and Ignite

Your Positive Personality, Ryan Nemick and co-author Robert McGrath have simplified character

strengths and made them easy for us to tap into. This week, Live Happy CEO, Deborah Heise sat down with Ryan to talk about

his new book and what we can all learn from it. Ryan, welcome to the show. Yeah, I'm very happy to be here,

Dev. Thanks for having me. You know, one of the things that we talk about a lot at Live Happy and that

we've done a lot of content on and, you know, that we're always excited to share and explore further because there's so much to talk about is character strengths.

But for some people listening to the podcast, this might be the first time they've heard

of character strengths. Maybe this is their first contact with Live Happy. Maybe they have

no idea what we're going to talk about today. So would you just give us just a brief overview of what we mean when we talk about character

strengths?

Sure.

You know, the way I like to think about it is to put the question back to the listener and to ask

them to think of a time when they were recently very happy or to think of a time when they were recently very happy, or to think of a time when they were really

engaged in the work that they were doing at their job, or to think of a time when they were

really connected with their child and their parenting, or they were really feeling a sense

of meaning in life, any of these examples. And then to ask themselves, what was really making

up that experience? What were the ingredients that created that positive experience? And the answer,

although people might use different words, would always come back to character strengths.

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