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How to Build a Happy Life: Don't Be Your Own Worst Enemy

How to Build a Happy Life: Don't Be Your Own Worst Enemy

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What It Means to Be Yourself

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In the social-media age, we curate images of our lives on a
screen—making it especially easy to translate images of perfection
as the image of oneself. But the pressure to pretend we are perfect
is exactly the thing holding us back from experiencing the
happiness we seek—and limiting our ability to be our whole,
authentic selves. In this episode of How to Build a Happy
Life, we’ll define what we mean by “authenticity” and explore the
psychological underpinnings of our ego-driven identities. A
conversation with the clinical psychologist and mindfulness expert
Dr. Shefali helps us work through one of the most challenging
questions of all: Who am I? This episode was produced by Rebecca
Rashid and is hosted by Arthur C. Brooks. Editing by A. C. Valdez.
Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Michael Raphael. Be
part of How to Build a Happy Life. Write to us at
howtopodcast@theatlantic.com or leave us a voicemail at
925.967.2091. Music by Trevor Kowalski (“Lion’s Drift,” “This
Valley of Ours,” “Una Noche De Luces”), Stationary Sign (“Loose in
the Park”), and Spectacles Wallet and Watch (“Last Pieces”). Click
here to listen to every full-length episode in the series. Try out
this week’s tool-kit exercise, “The Chipping-Away Exercise,” and
apply these lessons to your own life! Tag us on social media with
#thechippingawayexercise, and listen to full-length episodes of How
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