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071 - How to be Miserable with Randy Paterson - The Positive Psychology Podcast

071 - How to be Miserable with Randy Paterson - The Positive Psychology Podcast

FromThe Positive Psychology Podcast - Bringing the Science of Happiness to your Earbuds with Kristen Truempy


071 - How to be Miserable with Randy Paterson - The Positive Psychology Podcast

FromThe Positive Psychology Podcast - Bringing the Science of Happiness to your Earbuds with Kristen Truempy

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In our pursuit of happiness it is easy to become myopic. Why not freshen things up by trying, just for the length of this episode, to achieve utter misery? Randy Paterson is a psychologist and the author of the book How to be Miserable: 40 Strategies you Already use. He will shine a light on some of the strategies we use to be miserable (unless you are of course a regular listener, in which case, I trust, you have kicked most of these habits already ;-). For more episodes visit http://strengthsphoenix.com/listen For those of you who finally want to give Audible a try and support the podcast while doing so (at no extra cost to you) check out http://strengthsphoenix.com/audible  
Released:
Jun 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The science of the good life? Sorry this is not about booze, sex and the contemporary flavour of Rock n’Roll. We talk about the stuff that usually only tree huggers have the courage to embrace: appreciation of beauty, positive emotions, gratitude or positive relationships. However we, that is positive psychology researchers and practitioners bury ourselves in books, set out to experiment and then write it all up in a style that is usually about as engaging as watching an avocado turn brown. And that’s the problem: if you are not an academic you probably want a little bit more excitement than pages and pages of densely written journals can provide. Even if you are an academic who has the time to read everything that is out there? So in an effort to save your eyes from become rectangular-shaped the Positive Psychology Podcast brings the science of the good life to your earbuds. Sometimes we might get quite serious too, for example when discussing topics like post-traumatic-growth or positive parenting.