On this episode, Sukh talks about happiness and how it's not easy to find as people want it to be, or make claims about the right way to be happy. He argues perhaps happiness - and unhappiness - are what we describe when either other things are going very well for us, or when other things are not going well.
He explains the PERMA model by Martin Seligman in which he discusses you can think about and improve your wellbeing and raise your resilience. Wellbeing and resilience are concepts you can measure and you can improve tacitly - that is by doing things. The PERMA model is
You can read more about this model in Martin Seligman's book, Flourish.
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The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 50 What we’re getting wrong about praise and appreciation
The 3 Good Podcast : Episode 49 Can we be too positive?
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 47 Planning for Good Things
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 46 Apologies, Shame and Guilt
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 45 Lessons in Resilience
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 44 A Book Review of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 43 This Is Not Working From Home
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 42 On Boundaries
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 41 Geeking out with friends about the MCU
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 40 The Comfort of Avoidance and Reliance on Others
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 39 Research on Resilience
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 38 On Happiness
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 37 Why COVID-19 is psychologically hard to deal with
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 36 A Book Review of Grit by Angela Duckworth
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 35 What can you do to cultivate positivity?
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 34 The Boring, Routine Stuff for a Better Life
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 33 Why do we focus on self-awareness?
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 32 The challenge of empathy
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 31 Is it ok to be angry?
The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 30 How mental models help us understand more about being human
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