Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. In today's episode, I have a very

special guest for you. A few days ago, I had the distinct honor and pleasure to do a live

webinar and interview with one of the world's foremost experts on the

science of human happiness, Dr. Tal Ben Shahar.

And here's really all you need to know about him.

He is the professor of the most popular course ever in Harvard's history. He taught positive psychology and really with a focus on human happiness

in that course. And again, he is one of the creme de la creme of happiness experts on the planet

and really a pioneer in the field. So with no further ado, and that's really all you need to know about him, here is this interview.

It is full of gold nuggets and I think life-changing insights for many, many people.

So with no further ado, I hope you enjoy this wonderful podcast with Dr. Tal Ben Shahar.

Dr. Ben Shahar, thank you so much for joining me and agreeing to do this.

Thank you, Ari. It's so great to be here with you.

So let's talk from the meta-level perspective first.

Let's first just go as general, as big picture as we can. This word

happiness is thrown around a lot. Everybody's heard and used this term millions of times

in their lives. But I think that if you ask the average person to define it, most people

might struggle with defining a term like this.

So how do you, as a world expert on this topic, how do you define happiness?

Yeah, you know, Ari, there are probably as many definitions as there are people in the world and that's perfectly fine

and legit the definition that i found most useful again not the ultimate only or even best

definition what i found most useful is including five elements within the happiness definition.

They are what we call the spire elements.

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