Stephanie Harrison

But if instead you think about it from a lens of, what am I good at?

Yeah, it's really simple.

After 10 years of research, I've basically been able to boil it down that true happiness comes from being who you are and then using it to help other people.

What are the things that make me feel joy?

What makes me feel alive or like I'm able to express myself in a specific way?

And you start making a list of all those unique gifts,

And so this can be very translated to running your own business, of course.

then you can start to become a fuller understanding of who you are as a person and then figure out how you want to express that outward in different ways.

You can think about all of the unique skills that you have, the ideas that you possess, the gifts of character and wisdom and all of these beautiful things that are within you and then find a way to express them through the work that you do.

And the more that we can do that and craft environments where people are able to tap into those two experiences, the happier we can all become.

What happens if you lose your job or electricians are no longer needed or all of the technology goes away and you're no longer able to keep up with it for whatever reason, right?

Such a great question.

I mean, it's the work of a lifetime, obviously, of course, right?

Because we're always changing and we're always interacting with the world and it's affecting us in these different ways.

It's

putting all of your self-worth eggs in one basket, so to speak.

And so when I think about myself, even though I feel very proud of, for example, the work I've done, I try to remember that that work is just an expression of me rather than me itself.

But I think that usually what I like to advise is inviting people to think about who they are from a lens of strength.

Rather than weakness, again, which is what we learn in old happy capitalist individualistic culture.

When you think about your self-awareness, it's all about the problems that you have and the things that you're lacking.