274. Choose Connection Over Perfection: Why Happiness Starts with Better Communication
3/23/202625 min
How to communicate for deeper connection—and greater happiness.
Happiness isn’t just a feeling—it’s something you can actively shape through how you think, connect, and communicate.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside and co-author of How to Feel Loved: The Five Mindsets That Get You More of What Matters Most, defines happiness as two key components: “being happy in your life and being happy with your life.” And while many people separate happiness from meaning or purpose, she explains that “they almost always go together.”...
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First 90 secondsMatt Abrahams· Host0:00
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