Science-Based Tools for Increasing Happiness

I explain the science of happiness, including the different types
of happiness and how our actions, circumstances and mindset control
them. While it is difficult to standardize happiness from one
person to the next, I outline a structured framework of what is
critical to increasing your innate “natural happiness,” including
financial security, purposeful work and relationships, and I
explain specific tools to increase internal happiness (so-called
“synthetic happiness”). I review how specific types of human
connection and attention to our choices (or lack thereof) can
increase or undermine our level of happiness. I also discuss the
importance of certain types of physical contact, gratitude,
financial choices and volunteer contributions that research shows
can maximize happiness. And I discuss how factors such as children,
pets, physical well-being, substance use, prior traumas and
life-phase milestones affect our quest for and depth of happiness.
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https://livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Happiness
(00:06:27) Tool: Light Exposure Timing & Brightness Timing
(00:14:30) Sponsor: LMNT (00:17:51) Imprecise Language for
Happiness (00:20:26) Happiness: Neuromodulators &
Neurotransmitters  (00:26:32) Harvard Happiness Project 
(00:29:22) Income & Happiness; Social Interactions & Peer
Group  (00:37:20) Work, Sense of Meaning & Happiness
(00:40:13) Toolkit for General Wellbeing (00:43:06) Happiness
Across the Lifespan, Does Having Children Make Us Happier?
(00:47:20) Sponsor: AG1 (00:50:20) Birthdays & Evaluated
Happiness (00:52:45) Smoking, Alcohol & Happiness (00:54:23)
Trauma & Happiness, Lottery Winner vs. Paraplegic Accident
(01:05:05) Synthesizing Happiness (01:09:18) Natural Happiness
& Synthetic Happiness; Music (01:13:45) Tool: Synthesizing
Happiness: Effort, Environment & Gratitude (01:24:50) Tool:
Pro-Social Spending/Effort, Happiness (01:31:55) Tool: Focus,
Wandering Mind & Meditation  (01:39:40) Tool: Quality
Social Connection (01:41:28) Brief Social Connection, Facial
Recognition & Predictability (01:46:33) Deep Social Connection,
Presence & Eye Contact (01:54:00) Physical Contact & Social
Connection, Allogrooming, Pets (02:03:00) Freedom & Choice;
Synthetic Happiness (02:11:57) Happiness Toolkit (02:22:00)
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