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Marie Claire x The Thinkergirls: We Need To Talk About... Happiness

Ep. 169

Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About...

Today's Topic: Happiness


00:26 - Foreword from Editor of Marie Claire Nicky Briger  


1:17 - Marie Claire writer Kathryn Madden shares her experience of completing Yale's 'Happiness Course' 


6:12 - Obsessing over what you don't have is the killer of happiness 


9:57 - Visualisation as a technique to promote happiness from the course 


12:38 - Writer of 'Happy As' Lisa Portolan on why we're all so obsessed with being happy 


18:31 - The only way we can realise we're actually happy is by not being happy! 


23:26 - We need to reframe the word happy and use other words instead of just 'happy' 


24:49 - Happiness V Wellness. There's now a price tag on 'happiness' 



'Happy As' by Lisa Portolan. Check it out HERE 


https://www.booktopia.com.au/happy-as-lisa-portolan/prod9781760681111.html



Kathryn Madden's Marie Claire Article on her Yale Happiness Course experience 

https://www.marieclaire.com.au/yale-happiness-course-review




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