60: Todd Kashdan | The Bright Truth about Your Dark Side

Todd Kashdan (@toddkashdan) is a Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University and co-author of The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self -- Not Just Your "Good" Self -- Drives Success and Fulfillment.

What We Discuss with Todd Kashdan:

• Why trying to be positive and happy all the time may be harming • your ability to get things done and achieve the results you want.

• How what you may think of as negative emotions -- like anger -- can be useful superpowers with the proper awareness and application • .

• The problem with living in a time and place when distraction from discomfort comes in an easier and greater variety • than ever before.

• Why every decision you make now is based on how you expect to feel in the future • -- and you probably underestimate your ability to tolerate distress.

• How you can use the discomfort caveat • to ease out of the "put on a happy face" rut around others.

• And much more...

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