Hey everyone, this is Forest, welcome to Being Well.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,

welcome back.

And this is just about our 300th episode of The Being Well Podcast, which is just wild

to me.

I've learned a enormous amount from doing this podcast personally, and in the five years

we've been doing it, I've talked to over a hundred experts in psychology, personal growth,

and mental health.

And there's a lot of information in all of those episodes, and it's certainly been hard

for me to absorb all of it in the moment.

And on nice, round number episodes like this one, it feels right to kind of take a step

back here and really think about what we've learned.

And to help us do that, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so Rick is a clinical

psychologist, a best-selling author, and of course, he's also my dad, so dad, how are

you doing today?

I'm good, and thoroughly psyched about this topic, and what a cool thing, so let's dive

in.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this one.

It's going to be a little bit different from how we normally do our podcasts, because

I went through our pretty much whole back catalog of episodes at a lot of the summaries

that I had created to prep for the different conversations.

And I thought that it would make sense for us to start by me kind of talking through

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