Um and , or success and most of those ideas um tend to be erroneous or flawed . And so positive psychology helps to unveil or reveal the true sort of causes and effects of happiness and how it does or does not interconnect or relate to success . So I normally when I'm doing these interviews , I , I obviously draw upon questions that I have , but then they become free flowing because I love it , the spontaneity of hearing things and then going straight in and one of the things with you , like such a connection to everything that you always say and I listen so intently .
Glenn , you know , um 11 way to think about um positive psychology is precisely the way you describe it . You know , positive psychology has roots in humanistic psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness based cognitive behavioral therapy . And uh you know , really , it's got its sort of roots in lots of different areas of other , you know , schools of thought around psychology and it sort of brings us all together in a way that um sort of put our best foot forward around , let's say mental health , right ?
And um it's like the largest health coaching organization in the world . And so I teach a sort of introductory introduction to positive psychology for uh coaches , right ? So the great thing about the course is that it's really valuable for people who aren't only interested in becoming coaches , but for people who just want to live a life they love , right ?
So I came back to something that I felt was a lot more worthwhile and a lot more achievable and a lot more rewarding , which was just happiness itself . And then when I discovered positive psychology , it just got better . The whole thing got sweeter because I realized if you can , instead of putting the cart before the horse and putting success before happiness , if you can reverse that and put happiness first , that it leads more effortlessly to all the success you want .
You absolutely nailed it . Glenn , you know , um 11 way to think about um positive psychology is precisely the way you describe it . You know , positive psychology has roots in humanistic psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness based cognitive behavioral therapy .
