#1230 William von Hippel: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. William von Hippel. He is now senior research scientist at Whoop, and today we're going to talk about his latest book, The Social Paradox, Autonomy, Connection, and why we need both to find happiness. So, Dr.

von Hippel, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. It's great to see you again, Ricardo. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while.

So in the book, you focus on the human needs for autonomy and connection. Why did you choose those needs? Why do you think they're so in so relevant? Yeah, that's a good question. The um, you know, humans have lots of needs and one could focus a book on any of them, really.

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