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Stop Caring What Other People Think About You | Bruce Hood
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Stop Caring What Other People Think About You | Bruce Hood

10% Happier with Dan Harris · 10% Media, LLC

July 28, 20251h 7m

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Show Notes

A happiness expert explains how to alter your ego, reduce self-consciousness, and boost "okayness".

Bruce Hood has been a Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at Bristol University since 1999, and for the past 5 years he has been concentrating on how to make students happier. He undertook his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Cambridge followed by appointments at University College London, MIT and a faculty professorship at Harvard.

In this episode we talk about:

  • How to define happiness
  • How to be happy in the midst of a shitshow
  • How to shift from being egocentric (self-focused) to allocentric (interconnected)
  • The impacts of social isolation (and how to avoid it)
  • The challenge of optimism (and how to overcome it)
  • Finding a "flow state" through meditation
  • How to enhance your social connections
  • Where "true, authentic happiness" comes from
  • Controlling attention and rejecting negative comparisons
  • The role of nature
  • And much more

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