So , thank you so much for that . Um Yeah , so I work really as a happiness coach , I'm a positive psychology expert , positive psychology is the science of happiness . It really developed out of Martin Seligmann's work at the University of Pennsylvania .
It really developed out of Martin Seligmann's work at the University of Pennsylvania . Basically found that you could remove all the weaknesses and mental dysfunction , psychological and emotional illness from folks and you still wouldn't get a happy thriving individual . You just get a flat lining one , right .
Um and it comes through you . So lots of good reasons out there in the world to feel happy and lots of things that people can encourage you to be happy . But at the end of the day only you can make yourself happy and it's a great name for a book and so good .
Let me see how much this person is giving up or sacrificing for me , but that's not it . You know , we know based on lots of research that the happier you are , the easier you are to get along with and the more kind you are , the more charitable you are um the more generous you are , it just makes you a better kinder , more generous charitable person . So our happiness is our gift to the world and that can be often hard to convince people off .
And so they unknowingly unwittingly coach us , train us to do the same thing , right ? So we receive all these messages from society and parents and priests and philosophers and poets that kind of encourage us if not compel us to look for happiness in places and people and things where it doesn't exist or it can exist . Um So there's that piece and then of course , we double down because we begin practicing these inherited thoughts and beliefs that we've received from other people , we begin to practice them and we actually sort of wire our brain or rewire in our brain in a way that only deepens uh the unhappiness and the external sort of chasing of things and people and places and activities .
