Sonja Lyubomirsky is a psychologist, professor, and author.
What does it really mean to feel loved? People say “I love you” all the time, but why doesn’t it always register? Why can someone love you deeply, yet you still don’t feel it? What does real love actually feel like?
Expect to learn if there is a commonality between all of the happiness interventions out there, why feeling loved is important, how self-esteem and self-love are related, why having a sharing mindset is so important, what it actually means to be understood, the things that make you happier you might be overlooking, and much more…
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Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the…
“They put all their eggs in my basket where it's women have very close friendships, social support networks. But again, I think friends are what makes life worth living and yeah, so really maintain those friendships. Did you read Friends by Robin Dunbar?”
Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from…
“No, no, the introversion is the surprising part, I think, to me, that the introverts, you know, Susan Cain wrote this great book, Rachel Quiet, Love the Book. And I'm a big fan of introversion. I think there's a lot of benefits to being introverted.”
A psychology professor discusses his recent research into modern marriages and offers practical advice and long-term strategies to pursue self-discovery and personal growth and improve self-esteem along with your spouse …
“But we also have the false belief that our partner needs to fulfill all of our needs. So like Eli Finkel's book, the Aller Nothing Marriage, right? And so we know this to be true and yet we still think that, right?”
Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements and failures to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term wel…
“Well, the one that's kind of boring is that people think, well, okay, maybe it's not boring. I have a book about this called The Myths of Happiness. I'll be happy when.”