Episode 134: Happiness Skills

with Nataly Kogan

Genuine emotional wellbeing doesn’t come from making everything in our lives perfect and never feeling any difficult emotions. It comes from allowing ourselves to feel all that we feel, to accept ourselves and the world as it is.

Happiness isn’t a state of being or a simple feeling — and it doesn’t come from the outside. It’s a skill we can all practice and improve, no matter our starting point. On today’s episode, we talk about:

  • achievement doesn’t lead to happiness
  • accepting that happiness is inconsistent
  • 5 core happiness skills
  • The emotional immune system

Nataly Kogan is one of the leading global experts in optimizing your emotional health so you can thrive at work and in life.

After a successful career as a venture capital investor and tech executive at companies like McKinsey and Microsoft, Nataly founded Happier with the mission to help people and organizations unleash their greatest potential by cultivating science-backed Happier Skills.

Since then, more than a million people have used the Happier mobile app and participated in Happier @ Work programs and online courses.

Nataly is a sought-out keynote speaker and has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Her most recent book, HAPPIER NOW, was just released in May of 2018.

Connect with Nataly Kogan:

Learn more about Nataly, her books and other services at www.happier.com where you can find a range of tools to grow your happiness skills.

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