No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot

You say that children don't impact our happiness positively. I mean that's a data, what are you gonna do? And that kind of got me worried, I have to say. Dr. Tally Sherritt, a leading expert on human decision making, optimism, and emotion. And her TED Talk has received over 14 million views. I'm gonna talk to you about optimism. Kids and children, they're happiest and the most optimistic. Then it goes down and reaches rock bottom in your midlife. Um Any advice? Yes, absolutely. So one of the startling things is to talk about how one tiny move up on the optimism scale is worth an extra thirty three thousand dollars a year in salary. It's quite something. So optimists This is what they usually do. If something went well, they usually interpret that as something about them that caused this positive outcome. Pessimists do the exact opposite. I got the job, but really because they didn't have any other candidates.

Is that negative explanatory style, the road to depression? There's a really tight link between depression and pessimism. The question becomes, well, how do I enhance optimism? So there's a few ways to do it. I was thinking that everything you do is for happiness. The happiness is actually one of three factors that matter. So one is happiness. The second is meaning. And then there's a third factor that's also really interesting, which is

On the back of your book here, The Optimism Biased, it says You're one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today. How would you sort of define or categorise your own professional background?

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