2017-08-07
59 分钟One of the most proven repeatedly things in personality research is the connection between extroversion and subjective well being, which is a fancy way of saying extroverts are happier.
And in fact, there's one study that if you get introverts to act like extroverts, they're happy.
My guest today is Eric Barker.
Now, if you try and look up information about Eric online, you're not going to find a whole lot, except for one thing.
He writes a massively, massively popular blog called barking up the wrong tree.
And he has a book out now by the same name, where he dives deep into the psychology of how we act in the world, often focusing on a lot of paradoxes, the weird things that we do, and bringing research to illuminate why we do how we do it, trying to give us some good wisdom to how we live our lives.
When I was prepping for this conversation, I was fascinated by the fact that I could barely find anything about Eric the man anywhere.
So we spent some time kind of deconstructing who he was and what got him to the place where his deep fascination with human psychology grew.
A pretty giant global platform, which led to a book and some really interesting and unexpected stops along the way.
Excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
Good to be hanging out.
I've been reading you for a long time now, which I'm sure you get a lot.
So as I was sort of saying, okay, so let me learn a little bit more about Eric since we're going to be hanging out.
You know, I feel like I've, you know, I know what you work on.
I started doing a bit more research on you, the man.
And I'm like, is he in witness protection or something?
I go to your LinkedIn page and it's like, okay, so there's not really anything here.
Then I'm searching on the web, and then I find like a bizarre question on Quora about like, who is Eric Barker?