Prof Paul Dolan on Happiness

This week's podcast is with the brilliant Professor Paul Dolan.


Paul is a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School
of Economics and Political Science. He also is an author and
hosts his own popular podcast called Duck-Rabbit


We had a great laugh with Paul, our conversation focused on the
many facets of Happiness and how one glove does not fit all.



“This idea that one size fits all approach to living
well, would be evolutionarily stupid. We would never evolve to be
where we are if everyone was the same. So purely from an efficiency
perspective, it makes sense that society has different types of
people. So it’s about finding out where you are in that
distribution…”




Paul uses data and analytics to question our perceptions of
happiness and the myths we have been fed or “narrative traps”
around stories of love, marriage, ambition, and success. 


He has an amazing way of using everyday examples to convey his
points, which makes his work so relatable and brilliant.



“What you want money to be is like a referee in a
football game. They always say referees have the best game when no
one knows they are there. And that’s kind of how you want money to
be, you want it to be there because you need it but not paying
attention to it.”




A great episode, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.





Further reading by Prof Paul Dolan:


Book: 


Happiness By Design


Happy Ever After


Podcast: 


Duck-Rabbit Podcast


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