Get Over Yourself
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. If you're hoping to make big changes your life in 2025, you're probably viewing those goals through a lens that's very much focused on yourself.
I want to achieve this, or I want to become like that. The whole idea of self-improvement involves centering ourselves, putting our own hopes and worries in the spotlight. But if you're feeling this self-improvement bug in the new year, you may need to get over yourself. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. Because the science shows that checking your ego may be a faster path to happiness than you think.
But how can you get over yourself? And what are some strategies for taking yourself out of the spotlight? Today we'll get some tips from Bruce Hood. Bruce is a professor at the University of Bristol in England and the author of The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well. Like me, Bruce
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