Stop Caring What Other People Think About You | Bruce Hood

2025-07-28

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A happiness expert explains how to alter your ego, reduce self-consciousness, and boost "okayness". Bruce Hood has been a Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at Bristol University since 1999, and for the past 5 years he has been concentrating on how to make students happier. He undertook his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Cambridge followed by appointments at University College London, MIT and a faculty professorship at Harvard. In this episode we talk about: How to define happiness How to be happy in the midst of a shitshow How to shift from being egocentric (se...

A happiness expert explains how to alter your ego, reduce self-consciousness, and boost "okayness".

Bruce Hood has been a Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at Bristol University since 1999, and for the past 5 years he has been concentrating on how to make students happier. He undertook his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Cambridge followed by appointments at University College London, MIT and a faculty professorship at Harvard.

In this episode we talk about:

How to define happiness
How to be happy in the midst of a shitshow
How to shift from being egocentric (self-focused) to allocentric (interconnected)
The impacts of social isolation (and how to avoid it)
The challenge of optimism (and how to overcome it)
Finding a "flow state" through meditation
How to enhance your social connections
Where "true, authentic happiness" comes from
Controlling attention and rejecting negative comparisons
The role of nature
And much more