On Purpose with Jay Shetty · 2026-04-15 · 74 min · 14,032 words

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: The Simple Daily Habit Linked to Happiness (Do This ONE Thing Every Day and Significantly Improve Your Life!)

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Only one in four people, less than a quarter, in the states, report high workplace well-being. That's really, really worrying. The way you drive home from the office, the mood that you're in, will impact your wife, your children. This feeds into our societies and our communities big time. We should not have had to write a book on why workplace well being matters.

The world of work in which God knows how much time we all spend, it ought to be naturally a positive place. And it isn't. Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the place you come to become happier, healthier, and more healed. Today's guest is someone who's going to help us do exactly that.

I'm speaking about Jan-Emanuel Deneuve, a professor of economics and behavioral scientist. at the University of Oxford and director of Wellbeing Research Center. Jan is a leading expert on the economics of well-being and co-leads the world's largest study on how people feel at work. His latest book, Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters, explores how happiness at work shapes our lives, businesses, and society. If you want to lead better, if you want to know how to have happiness,

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