Maddie starts us off talking about 'The Science of WellBeing', a popular course designed by Professor Laurie Santos that was originally offered at Yale and is now free to anybody online through Coursera (see link below). From there we launch off on a number of tangents, including changing your Happiness Set Point, what to do when we feel like maybe we shouldn’t be happy, how to handle the contagion of negativity and more. We mention a number of resources and here are the promised links:

Check out The Science of Well Being here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being/

Check out Marci Shimoff’s Living in the Miracle Zone podcast,full of interviews with positive people here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCmNObyOx_1ADDQ1u4Rl93WjFqMiDvNC0&si=MQKbr8pWOtCoQDBN or take a look at her book, Happy For No Reason here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/happy-for-no-reason-7-steps-to-being-happy-from-the-inside-out-carol-kline/497a5b2aa46b219e?ean=9781416547730

The other book Kerry mentions is The Happiness Advantageby Shawn Achor: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-happiness-advantage-how-a-positive-brain-fuels-success-in-work-and-life-shawn-achor/fc502babc59db48a?ean=9780307591555

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Book lovers, both readers and writers, this one is for you! Don’t you just love a perfect title? We’re swapping stories about our most magical titles and the fun, surprising, and sometimes mysterious places they came from!

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Have you done any of these things?

A) Hide a book you wanted to read inside your math or history textbook?

B) Read while walking down the street?

C) Sneak a quick peek at your book a stoplight when you were driving a car?

D) Stay up way too late because you just had to know what was going to happen next?

That’s the reading joy we’re claiming in this episode. So, if you’ve ever read a book out of a sense of obligation or that vague, guilty, feeling that it’s something you should do – this episode is for you! This is your permission slip to NOT finish that copy of Moby Dick that you’ve been working on for five years now. To skip over the next book on your TBR pile if you’re not feeling the love. To pick the book you’re excited about instead of the big important book everyone else is reading if you’re just really not into it. Life is short – read what you love.

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