This week we talk to Emma Seppälä about success and happiness
Emma Seppälä, Ph.D is Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the author of The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success. She is also Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a Lecturer at Yale College where she teaches The Psychology of Happiness. She consults with Fortune 500 leaders and employees on building a positive organization and teaches in the Yale School of Management’s Executive Education program. She graduated from Yale (BA), Columbia (MA), and Stanford (PhD).
In This Interview, Emma Seppälä and I Discuss...
- Her book, The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
- The false notion that in order to be successful you have to work so hard that you postpone your happiness
- The 6 major false theories that are behind our current notions of success
- The false theory of "You can't have success without stress"
- That our stress response is only meant to be fight or flight, not "most of the time"
- That high adrenaline compromises our immune system, our ability to focus, make good decisions
- The role of meditation in one's success
- What prevents us from getting into a creative mindset
- How to manage your energy vs managing your time
- What we can learn from the resilience in children and animals
- Where veterans and civilians can go to learn the art of breathing to recover from trauma
- For Veterans: Project Welcome Home Troops
- For Civilians: Art of Living
- How "looking out for #1" can actually be harmful to you
- Why workplaces are incorporating compassion training
