The Science of Happiness with Professor Bruce Hood

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We all want to be happier, but our brains often get in the way. When we’re too stuck in our heads we obsess over our inadequacies, compare ourselves with others and fail to see the good in our lives.

In The Science of Happiness, world-leading psychologist and happiness expert Bruce Hood demonstrates that the key to happiness is not self-care but connection. He presents seven simple but life-changing lessons to break negative thought patterns and re-connect with the things that really matter.

Bruce Hood is an award-winning Professor of Developmental Psychology at Bristol University and the author of several books including SuperSense, The Self Illusion, The Domesticated Brain and Possessed. His course, The Science of Happiness, is the most popular course at Bristol University. He has appeared extensively on TV and radio, including co-hosting the BBC podcast The Happiness Half Hour in 2021. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the British Psychological Society.

The film Bruce and Adrienne discuss is Agent of Happiness. A 2024 documentary film that follows Bhutanese government officials, Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, as they travel through the country to measure people's happiness levels, which are then used to calculate the Gross National Happiness score.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:11.2	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,
0:17.6	change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by
0:22.5	and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to
0:28.4	encourage, motivate and inspire, so I hope that The Power Hour will help you to achieve
0:33.4	your personal and professional goals.
0:39.7	Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast.
0:42.5	Today I'm joined by Professor Bruce Hood.
0:46.1	Bruce is a world-leading psychologist and happiness expert.
0:51.2	Today we're going to discuss common misconceptions about defining and pursuing happiness, why we must control our attention, avoid comparison, the importance
0:56.0	of connection, and modern world challenges.
0:59.5	These are all topics that are outlined in Bruce's book, The Science of Happiness, and
1:04.1	will also be discussing a brand new documentary film that explores these topics as well,
1:09.1	Agents of Happiness.
1:10.8	Bruce, welcome to the podcast.
1:12.5	Hi there, Adrian. Thank you so much for having me on. I'm really delighted to be here.
1:16.5	Well, I think that happiness is something that, I don't know, I think there's a lot of
1:20.1	assumptions about happiness. I think that whoever you are trying to, I mean, you'll be
1:25.6	able to correct me if I'm wrong in this, trying to understand and
1:28.7	define what happiness means. I often think that it's subjective and it's deeply personal and it's
1:33.3	nuanced. However, there are some universal shared truths about happiness. We all think that it's
1:39.5	something positive, something that we maybe want to have more of in our lives. So I suppose my first question
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