Stephanie Harrison: The Old Model of Happiness Is Dead, Design a Business That Fuels Your Joy | Mental Health | E317
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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What is the old model of happiness?
You're more than just your business. You're more than just your performance or your achievements. What is the most important factor that you would say for long-term happiness? After 10 years of research, I've basically been able to boil it down that true happiness comes from... And the more that we can do that, the happier we can all become.
Yeah, fam, have you ever wondered if your quest for success, money, and achievement as an entrepreneur, the pursuit of happiness in building your business, was actually the root of everything that was making you unhappy? Well, my guest today, Stephanie Harrison, seems to think so, and she's challenging the way that many of us, especially entrepreneurs, have been conditioned to think about our happiness. Stephanie is a writer, designer, and an expert in the science of happiness. She holds a master's degree in positive psychology and has devoted her life to the study of well-being through her company, New Happy, which includes a newsletter, a podcast, and her brand new book, New Happy, Getting Happiness Right in a World That's Got It Wrong. In this episode, we're gonna break down the old model of happy versus the new model of happy.
What are the lies about happiness that society tells us?
Stephanie's gonna uncover some of the lies that society has told us about happiness and how we as entrepreneurs can live the most happy life possible by changing our goals from being extrinsic to intrinsic. Without further delay, here's my conversation with Stephanie Harrison. Stephanie, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm thrilled to be here with you. Likewise. And so we've talked a lot about happiness on the podcast. And when I talk to people about happiness, I feel like they know what happiness is really all about. If I say, what is your secret to profiting in life? I ask that at the end of every show. And really, that's me asking, what do you think the secret of happiness is? And everyone always says relationships, connection, service.
And so we all kind of know the answer to happiness, but our actions are still trying to make more money, work harder, get achievements. So I want to start off with this paradox. Why do we not do the things that we know are going to make us happy?
This is the heart of all of the work I do. So you just nailed it with this description. Honestly, it's because we live in a culture and a society that tells us to do certain things to become happy. And as you said so beautifully, even though it doesn't align with our own experience and our inner knowing, we end up being very much influenced by that.
How can we find happiness beyond achievement?
And it ends up driving our actions to deprioritize the things that do make us happy and unfortunately pursue things that don't end up contributing to lasting well-being in the long term.
So talk to us about the old model of happiness. What is the old model of happiness?
It's really what you described, this cultural understanding of happiness that teaches us that if you want to be happy, you need to perfect yourself. You need to achieve more and more and consume as much as you can. And you need to dominate other people and essentially cut yourself off from them and be completely independent. And these messages about happiness are you know, they like seep into our lives in so many different ways, whether it's through our workplaces or through the institutions that we see or what we see in the media. And so it becomes very hard to untangle them if we don't have that awareness about what old happy is.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the old model of happiness?
0:34–1:57
2
What are the lies about happiness that society tells us?
1:57–3:24
3
How can we find happiness beyond achievement?
3:24–4:16
4
What is 'The New Happy' philosophy?
4:16–6:02
5
How do intrinsic and extrinsic goals affect our happiness?
6:02–8:54
6
What are practical steps to live authentically?
8:54
7
How does capitalism impact well-being?
3:42–10:18
8
How can we cultivate gratitude for happiness?
10:18–1:04:36
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