Thank you for joining us for episode 432 of Live Happy Now.

We've heard that money can't buy happiness, but how does our perception of money affect our well-being?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with author and lecturer Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar,

co-founder of the Happiness Studies Academy and creator

of the master's degree in happiness studies. Tahl is here to talk about recent findings that show

our perception of money has changed dramatically and it's damaging our happiness. He's going to

break down what this survey tells us and why it's so important to change our view of money for the sake of our well-being.

Let's have a listen.

Tau, thank you so much for coming back on Live Happy Now.

Thank you, Paula, for having me back.

This is a really interesting conversation to have because, as you know, Bloomberg just released a survey, and it had some really surprising results

on people's perception about money. And it really showed how things have changed dramatically.

I wondered if, to start it off, if you wanted to talk a little bit about what some of those

findings were. Sure. So the Bloomberg study very much aligns with what we've been studying in the field of

happiness studies over the past, you know, few decades, which is that people's perceptions

matter a great deal more than their objective circumstances. So what they identified were

people who were making a lot of money. They were in the top

tenth of the population in terms of income, about $175,000. And yet a large minority were

feeding poor and the majority were not feeling comfortable about how much they were making.

Now, most people, probably around 90% of the

population would say, you know, what are they about? They're, you know, they're spoiled and,

you know, they have so much money. They should be, first of all, grateful, second, happy.

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