Moment 151: Neuroscientist Reveals The 3 Things You Need To Do For A Fulfilling Life: Tali Sharot

Uh When you started studying neuroscience and psychology, were there some like fundamentals about the nature of life and the nature of human beings? that um I'm I'm sure there's so many of them, but were there any like real fundamentals that were Um debunked. Or reversed.

as it relates to your own personal perspective, whether it's about personal responsibility or about um, I don't know, agency or autonomy, about how much control we have, about how much influence we have over our happiness. Were there anything foundational that had a real impact on your personal life? You know, uh there's one thing that recently is just is just something that I recently changed my mind on, and that was actually while writing the current book that I'm writing, which I'm writing together with Cass Einstein, um, who is the co author of Nudge. And it was actually in fact about happiness.'Cause and I remember this clearly. Um I was in a workshop at the L S C um and they did a survey. They asked who thinks that happiness is the most important thing? Right, that everything you do is for happiness. And you know, everyone had to stand on a scale. If you think like it's all about happiness, stand here. And if you think it's not at all, stand here. And I was standing here. I was thinking anything that we do, we do for happiness, and that all that that matters. Um and while writing this book, actually

We both came to the conclusion and for me it was a change of mind. The happiness is actually one of three factors that matter. Um

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