Brain Development
Part 2 of 3: How Can I Train My Brain to be Happy?
CJ Liu interviews Randy Taran, the Founder of Project Happiness and author of Emotional Advantage: Embracing All Your Feelings to Create a Life You Love.
After her documentary on Happiness, Taran wanted to gather all the research on happiness. She shares what she learned from Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, who found that there are five building blocks that enable flourishing. Those blocks, know as PERMA™ are:
- Positive Emotion
- Engagement
- Relationships
- Meaning, and
- Accomplishment.
During the interview Taran goes into more detail about PERMA™ and how these concepts can increase happiness. Specifically, how we can increase our life satisfaction by 25% just through trying some of the techniques. The amount of research on happiness and related techniques is overwhelming, and can feel impossible to know where to start. Taran explains that to be happier we must rewire our brains and habitual thinking. Just like anything, this requires practice. In the interview, she shares how using the 7 days in a week, you can retrain your brain with 7 Happiness Habits that will radically simplify making happiness a habit.
- Monday: Mindfulness
- Tuesday: Gratitude
- Wednesday: Wellness
- Thursday: Thoughtful/Kindness
- Fridays: Freedom from conditioning
- Saturday: Social
- Sunday: Soul
Find out more about these habits and why they are important in the video.
What did the Dalai Lama say about creating happiness? Find out by going to Part 1.
Apply practical advice on making it real. Learn what to do next time you are feeling angry, stressed, or guilty by going to Part 3.
Part 2 of 3: How Can I Train My Brain to be Happy?: YouTube Video
More on Randy Taran
Randy Taran is the CEO of Project Happiness, and has created an organization that has amassed a loyal following of 2.5 million people globally. She has produced an award-winning documentary on the nature of happiness featuring George Lucas, Richard Gere, neuroscientist Richard Davidson, and the Dalai Lama. She has also co-written a book on happiness that has become the basis for curriculum in over 120 countries. Randy speaks internationally, and at venues like TEDx, Google, and Stanford University, on the topics of happiness habits, preventative wellness and emotional resilience.
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