Happiness

Books

  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
  • Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
  • The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
  • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
  • Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster–And Overcoming OurFear of Slowing Down
  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
  • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
  • The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
  • I’m Just a Person
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
  • In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
  • Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You
  • The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
  • Laughing at My Nightmare
  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  • The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
  • Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
  • The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  • Experts

  • Alan Alda
  • Gretchen Rubin
  • Brené Brown
  • Sarah Silverman
  • Bessel van der Kolk
  • Lori Gottlieb
  • Diane Guerrero
  • Jenara Nerenberg
  • Bronnie Ware
  • Clare Patey
  • Shane Burcaw
  • Tig Notaro
  • Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Aminatou Sow
  • Ann Friedman
  • Mazie Hirono
  • Penn Jillette
  • James Randi
  • Julie Sondra Decker
  • Stephanie Brown
  • B.J. Fogg
  • Dr. Laurie Santos
  • Shelly Johnson
  • Caroline Ervin
  • Emily Kwong
  • Rebecca Sugar
  • Celeste Ng
  • Robia Rashid
  • Issa Rae
  • Cordelia Fine
  • Paula Poundstone
  • Movies/Videos

  • An Honest Liar
  • Bully
  • Netizens
  • Podcasts

  • Happier with Gretchen Rubin
  • Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
  • The Sarah Silverman Podcast
  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
  • A Slight Change of Plans
  • Latter-Day Lesbian
  • The Happiness Lab
  • Penn’s Sunday School
  • A Mile in my Shoes
  • Series

  • Atypical
  • Little Fires Everywhere
  • Steven Universe
  • Websites

  • Laughing At My Nightmare
  • Black Nonbelievers (BN)
  • Psychology Today
  • A Slight Change of Plans

    A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar

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    Podcast Decription:

    Dr. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who studies how our minds work and how we change. There are few things in life that are as complex and messy—and potentially magical—as change. On A Slight Change of Plans, you’ll hear intimate conversations that give an unvarnished look into how people navigate changes of all kinds and use that change to ultimately grow. Maya uncovers little-known personal stories and reflections from familiar names like Hillary Clinton, Tiffany Haddish and Kacey Musgraves, and extraordinary stories from real-life inspirations, like a young cancer researcher in the throes of a stage 4 diagnosis and a Black jazz musician who convinced hundreds of KKK members to leave the Klan. Their stories and circumstances couldn’t be more different, but they all share one thing in common: life threw them a (slight) change of plans.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and What Should Be

    Host:

  • Maya Shankar
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    Robia Rashid

    Robia Rashid

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    Biography:

    Robia Sara Rashid is an American television writer-producer and showrunner. She is widely known as the creator of Netflix original series Atypical. Rashid was also the co-story editor, co-producer and supervising producer of the CBS sitcom series How I Met Your Mother.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Regrets, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

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  • Atypical
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    Atypical

    Atypical

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    Series Decription:

    Atypical is an American comedy-drama streaming television series created by Robia Rashid for Netflix. It focuses on the life of 18-year-old Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), who is on the autism spectrum. The first season was released on August 11, 2017, consisting of eight episodes. The 10-episode second season was released on September 7, 2018. In October 2018, the series was renewed for a third season of ten episodes, which was released on November 1, 2019. In February 2020, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on July 9, 2021.

    The first season received mostly positive reviews. However, it was highly criticized by some sources for its lack of autistic actors, and perceived inaccuracies in its depiction of autism. The second season featured autistic actors and writers, allowing them to have an opportunity to work and represent their community, and received mostly positive reviews. The third season continued this positive development and received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Featuring:

  • Robia Rashid
  • Genre: Fiction

    Website: Link

    Release Date: 2017-08-11

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    Celeste Ng

    Celeste Ng

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    Biography:

    Celeste Ng is the author of two novels, Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere.

    Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the ALA’s Alex Award. It has been translated into over thirty languages and is being adapted for the screen.

    Celeste’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere (2017) was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Next bestseller, and Amazon’s Best Fiction Book of 2017. It was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications, the winner of the Ohioana Award and the Goodreads Readers Choice Award 2017 in Fiction, and has spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Little Fires Everywhere has been published abroad in more than 30 languages and has been adapted as a limited series on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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    Little Fires Everywhere

    Little Fires Everywhere

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    Series Decription:

    Little Fires Everywhere is an American drama streaming television miniseries, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Celeste Ng. It premiered on Hulu on March 18, 2020 and consists of eight episodes. The series stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, both of whom were also executive producers, alongside Liz Tigelaar, Lauren Neustadter, and Pilar Savone. Set in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio during the late 1990s, it features Witherspoon and Washington as mothers from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Featuring:

  • Celeste Ng
  • Genre: Fiction

    Website: Link

    Release Date: 2020-03-18

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    Rebecca Sugar

    Rebecca Sugar

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    Biography:

    Rebecca Rea Sugar is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and singer-songwriter. They[a] are the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, making her both the first femme-presenting and the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network. Until 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. Her work on the two series has earned her seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Sugar is bisexual and non-binary, using she/her and they/them pronouns, which has served as the inspiration for her to stress the importance of LGBT representation in art, especially in children’s entertainment.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

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  • Steven Universe
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    Steven Universe

    Steven Universe

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    Series Decription:

    Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It is Cartoon Network’s first animated series to be created solely by a woman. The show tells the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Steven Universe (Zach Callison), who lives with the Crystal Gems—magical, humanoid aliens named Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall)—in the fictional town of Beach City. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. Its pilot was first shown in May 2013, and the series ran for five seasons, from November 2013 to January 2019. The TV film Steven Universe: The Movie was released in September 2019, and an epilogue limited series, Steven Universe Future, ran from December 2019 to March 2020.

    The themes of the series include love, family, and the importance of healthy interpersonal relationships. Sugar based the lead character on her younger brother Steven, who was an artist for the series. She developed Steven Universe while she was a writer and storyboard artist on Adventure Time, which she left when Cartoon Network commissioned her series for full production. The series is storyboard-driven; the show’s storyboard artists were responsible for writing the dialogue and creating the action in addition to drawing the storyboards. Books, comics and video games based on the series have been released.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Planning, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Featuring:

  • Rebecca Sugar
  • Genre: Fiction

    Website: Link

    Release Date: 2013-07-27

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    Emily Kwong

    Emily Kwong

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    Biography:

    Emily Kwong (she/her) is the reporter for NPR’s daily science podcast, Short Wave. The podcast explores new discoveries, everyday mysteries and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes, Monday through Friday.

    Prior to working at NPR, Kwong was a reporter and host at KCAW-Sitka, a community radio station in Sitka, Alaska. She covered local government and politics, culture and general assignments, chasing stories onto fishing boats and up volcanoes. Her work earned multiple awards from the Alaska Press Club and Alaska Broadcasters Association. Prior to that, Kwong produced youth media with WNYC’s Radio Rookies and The Modern Story in Hyderabad, India.

    Kwong won the “Best New Artist” award in 2013 from the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition for a story about a Maine journalist learning to speak with an electrolarynx. She was the 2018 “Above the Fray” Fellow, reporting a series for NPR on climate change and internal migration in Mongolia.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Environmental Science, Evolution, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Fear of the Unknown, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Numbers and Mathematics, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Planning, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, The Scientific Method, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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  • Short Wave
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    Caroline Ervin

    Caroline Ervin

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    Biography:

    Caroline is a research-driven feminist investigator always on the hunt for the hidden histories of women who’ve changed the world. An editor by training, Caroline employs her print journalism background in her new-media approach to educating audiences about health, history and pop culture through a gendered lens. She also loves Corgis, Otis Redding records, and strong gin + tonics.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Power, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and Unhealthy Behavior

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  • Unladylike
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    Shelly Johnson

    Shelly Johnson

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    Biography:

    Shelly was born and raised in the Mormon church, like all good Mormons, she married young and bred fast, having seven wonderful children to ensure she would get into Heaven and please her Mormon family.

    Not long after the birth of her seventh child, Shelly had a breakdown. She left the church, coming out of the closet and divorcing her husband. Now she’s doing her best trying to figure out life and heal from the trauma.

    This episode is a raw account of Shelly’s journey of liberation and awakening, as she undoes the shackles of conditioning, moves through guilt and experiences a full life for the first time in 40 years.

    Shelly shares how she thought her depression and anxiety was a sign that she was a sinner, it wasn’t until her partner Mary assured her that everything was going to be alright that she no longer had to pretend and life responded in the form of a gentle breeze on her shoulder.

    Together we explore her family’s response to her coming out as a lesbian and the incredible difference she is making in the lives of others as she and Mary host the insightful, funny and downright honest podcast called Latter Day Lesbian.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Complex Realities, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Shelly Johnson

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