Dr. Nicholas Epley

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1,223 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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When you're writing up the show notes afterwards, you're acting introverted, right?
When I'm teaching, I am acting extroverted.
When I'm writing my book, I'm acting introverted.
About 85% of the variability in what people are doing moment to moment comes from what they are asked to do.
And people's well-being, introverts and extroverts alike, tend to come when they're interacting with other people and they feel less good when they're not, which is one of the reasons why extroverts are consistently and much happier in their lives than introverts are.
The way to think about this is like exercise.
We would all be a little healthier if we exercise more, particularly folks who don't exercise much at all.
You'd be a little physically healthier.
The same thing is true with your social life, too, that we'd all be a little happier, extroverts and introverts alike.
Psychologists find that when they ask you to act more extroverted, people report being happier when they do that over a half hour, an hour, a day, two weeks, as Sonja Lubomirsky, psychologist at UC Riverside, finds in her field studies.
Acting extroverted increases people's mood, their satisfaction with life, their reported happiness.
Yeah, for sure.
Just like there is with exercise.
The data don't suggest you should be constantly talking.
You got things to do.
I got to write a book.
You got to type the show notes, right?
Whatever.
We got other things we got to do for sure.
The data just suggests that in those opportunities where you could choose to engage or hold back,
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