Neil Pasricha: From Awesome Hunter to Happiness Crusader

尼尔·帕斯里查:从了不起的猎人到幸福十字军

Good Life Project

自我完善

2016-03-28

57 分钟
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Today's conversation features Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series, three time Webby Award winner, Harvard MBA grad, former Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, and husband, father, son, and brother. He is the author of a new book, The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything, which started as a letter to his unborn child on how to live a happy life, after his wife told him she was pregnant on the flight home from their honeymoon! TIn This episode, You’ll Learn: How Neil divides his time into 3 buckets for optimal happiness (and how they are different from the 3 buckets Jonathan offers).Why wanting can often lead to the exact opposite of happiness.Why he advocates for a 'home contract' as a key to happiness, in addition to a business or employment contract.How action leads to motivation, not the other way around.Why he's loving the word practice these days. Mentioned In This Episode: 100 Awesome ThingsThe 3 A's of awesomeThe Institute for Global Happiness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Average life spent 25,000 days.

  • And so in that time structure of time being finite and counting down and so rare, I have this feeling that if I'm not conscious about how I'm spending my week, then I quickly lose track of the whole year.

  • Today's guest, Neil Pesrica, had a really brutal time a couple years back.

  • He was in the deepest part of a divorce at a pretty young age.

  • His best friend took his own life to mental illness, to some deep demons and struggles, and he was trying to find a way out.

  • And he started on a daily basis just posting something that was awesome on a blog that he threw up in ten minutes.

  • That became a thousand awesome things and gained a massive worldwide audience.

  • That turned into book series and global speaking career.

  • And it helped lift him out of a really dark moment in his life.

  • And he ended up then getting remarried, becoming a dad, and really turning his attention to, okay, what actually is it that makes you happy?

  • That makes him happy?

  • And can he identify some interesting patterns that he might be able to share?

  • And that's ended up in the pages of a new book called the happiness equation.

  • So I'm really excited to sit down and share some time talking, not really just about the book, but also really going deeper into Neil's journey and what it was like to move through this window in his life that led to a lot of these ideas dropping.

  • I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good life project.

  • We almost met.

  • Was it four years ago, five years ago?

  • Yeah.