The Knowledge Project Podcast
Adam Robinson teaches us how to learn, how to fail, and his three secrets of happiness and success.
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As a professor of psychology at Yale and host of The Happiness Lab podcast, I've spent the last few years teaching simple science-backed tips to improve our well-being. I know the research inside out—but the giant dumpster fire of a year that was 2020 has had me struggling, too.
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You see here a different kind of happiness book. “The How of Happiness” is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research.
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.
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Your emotional health is key to a happy life.
We’ve been through a lot in the last year. So many things have happened *to* us, things we have no control over, that have had a huge impact on our lives. After all that, it’s natural to ask ourselves a simple question: How much of our happiness do we actually control?
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Results from the newest Greater Good quiz reveal where there's room for improvement in happiness at work.
For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”
Many of us treat joy like the good china, only warranted on special occasions. Even if we know it is within our reach, we may not see it is within our control.