The Hidden Beliefs That Shape Your Happiness with Shawn Achor
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Pushkin. Welcome back to our series on how to spring clean our well-being. So far, we've explored the happiness benefits of things like releasing grudges, redesigning our spaces, and rethinking how our screens affect our physical health. But this episode of the Happiness Lab is about spring cleaning the beliefs that lie underneath all that. So if I ask people about beliefs, like what do you believe?
They'll start with a political belief and then a religious belief. This is author and happiness expert Sean Aker. They'll immediately go to one of those two things, but actually we have beliefs about everything. We have beliefs about who drives a cyber truck. Are they liberal or conservative?
We have beliefs about how tall I should be or whether or not It's good to be a stay-at-home parent. We have undercurrents of belief that shape everything. It's true that this idea of beliefs feels almost too broad to tackle. You can believe in things like free will or Santa Claus, or karma or meritocracy.
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