Hello and I'm welcome to another episode of IWay with Jamila Jamil.

Now we know that this podcast is largely around mental health and how I can and help all of us feel

happier and I have all these kind of theories that I talk about on this podcast via other experts

or via my own findings about my own personal life, but it's very rare that I can back it up with research

because I left school at 16 so I went out and found an actual expert on this

specific subject of happiness his name is Professor Bruce Hood a real life

professor in a real life university teaching real life

students in real life courses. He's cognitive neuroscientist and a

psychologist and his work is all around the human mind and particularly in this area of

happiness in the last few years of his life and he's written a book called

the Science of Happiness and he he takes it away from being this sort of ethereal

elusive concept that we're all trying to work towards as if it's a final

destination rather than just a transient experience based on the lives that we're living.

And so in his book he breaks the road to happiness down in a really unpretentious and a very optimistic way and it's

rare that these books don't give me the ick and I thought his was fantastic I really his work. I really like him as a person.

He's a very straight shooter. And in this book we talk about what's a little bit unhelpful

about the current chat around mental health and the way that we encourage people to protect

themselves and to boundary themselves. We just challenge, well he challenges and then I just

chip in from absolutely no experience but I just

agree to him but he's talking about the fact in this book and in this episode that

there are things that might be holding us back in the current way that we're told to deal with our mental health.

He also investigates labels and whether or not those are more helpful or more hurtful.

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