TLS #96 with Tal Ben-Shahar: How to Diversify Self-Worth
The Lively Show
Bella Lively
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode of The Lively Show is a huge honor for me to share with you.
I’m talking with author and lecturer, Tal Ben-Shahar. Tal taught two of the largest Harvard classes in the history of the school, and I was a lucky student of his Positive Psychology class — tuning in “un-officially” during my time at The University of Michigan.
His work has made a huge impact on my life and I am pumped to get to share him with you today on TLS(!!!).
In the show we cover a wide range of topics including: positive psychology, the origins of “self help,” the importance of diversifying our self-worth, perfect vs. optimal, and how to effectively implement habits that will boost our happiness.
This episode is perfect for anyone who geeks out on the topic of personal development or wants to get some easy takeaways to start improving their life one optimal step at a time.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT
- Why the idea of “self help” has shifted from being about hard work and small change over time to quick fixes.
- What things are key to making positive changes in our lives.
- The #1 predictor of well-being.
- Why research shows that levels of happiness and empathy are dropping, and how we can increase those things in our own lives.
- Effective ways to get over the resistance we may experience towards things like exercising, meditation, and gratitude and how to create lasting habits.
- Tal’s thoughts on perfectionism and how embracing “good enough” can lead to less frustration and more satisfaction in our lives.
- How to diversify your self worth.
- How to avoid distractions and be more present in our lives
- What Tal would tell someone just starting out on this journey.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 96. |
| 0:03.3 | Welcome to the Lively Show. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Jess Lively and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire, and |
| 0:11.3 | add a little extra intention to your everyday. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the show guys. |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you so much as always for listening. Today's episode is with tall Ben Shahar. |
| 0:27.5 | He is an author lecturer and founder of happier. TV. |
| 0:32.0 | He's also the author of The Pursuit of Perfect, Choose the Life You Want, |
| 0:36.2 | Being Happy and Happier. But the real reason Tall is on today's episode is because he is my favorite |
| 0:42.4 | professor I ever had, but I never actually took |
| 0:45.4 | his class officially. Tall taught two of Harvard's largest classes ever including |
| 0:50.3 | positive psychology which at the time when I was in school at the University of Michigan, I believe as a junior, that was when he was teaching positive psychology in his other class as well. |
| 1:01.0 | I found out about it because he was all over the media and getting a |
| 1:04.2 | lot of attention for this class and how many people are joining and changing their |
| 1:07.5 | lives because of it at Harvard and I figured it didn't just need to apply to |
| 1:12.1 | Harvard students alone. |
| 1:13.4 | So I found a way to receive his lectures online and kind of follow along with the class, |
| 1:18.7 | though I didn't do the reading assignments or homework. |
| 1:20.6 | It was kind of the best class ever, because I just got to enjoy the lectures themselves. |
| 1:25.1 | It was amazing and made a huge impact on my life and I truly see him as one of the teachers that |
| 1:29.8 | has profoundly impacted the work that I do today. |
| 1:33.2 | So it is a huge honor for me to ask Tall to come on the show |
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