Stop Caring What Other People Think About You | Bruce Hood

A happiness expert explains how to alter your ego, reduce self-consciousness, and boost “okayness”. Bruce Hood has been a Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at Bristol University since 1999, and for the past 5 years he has been concentrating on how to make students happier. He undertook his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Cambridge followed by appointments at University College London, MIT and a faculty professorship at Harvard. In this episode we talk about: • How to define happiness • How to be happy in the midst of a shitshow • How to shift from being egocentric (self-focused) to allocentric (interconnected) • The impacts of social isolation (and how to avoid it) • The challenge of optimism (and how to overcome it) • Finding a “flow state” through meditation • How to enhance your social connections • Where “true, authentic happiness” comes from • Controlling attention and rejecting negative comparisons • The role of nature • And much more

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