8 Strategies For Avoiding A Life You Hate - Dr Gad Saad - #686

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Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Gad Saad. He's an evolutionary psychologist, professor of marketing at Concordia University, a podcaster and an author. In today's fast-paced world, happiness and contentment often seem elusive. By taking an evolutionary lens on happiness, we can gain deeper insights into why we are the way we are and decode the contributing elements to living a good life. Expect to learn where happiness actually comes from, why evolution cursed humans with the ability to feel existential discontent, what people get wrong about defining and understanding happiness, what role genetics plays, how to pick the right partner, whether married people are more happy on average, why more sex doesn't equal more happiness, how you can become more anti-fragile and much more. This Monday, another Modern Wisdom cinema episode, this time from my trip to London a couple of weeks ago, and it is with Steven Bartlett, host of the Diary of a CEO podcast, one of the biggest podcasts in all of the UK. And we go for two and a half hours running through a ton of rules and lessons for life, business, happiness, resilience and an awful lot more. It was a lot of fun and it's been a long time since Steven was on the show, probably three years since the last time that he was on. So if you want to make sure that you're not going to miss that episode and all of the other fantastic ones I've got coming up over the rest of the year, please make sure that you've hit the subscribe button and it ensures you won't miss episodes and it helps to support the show. It really does make a difference. Plus it makes me very happy indeed. So go and do it. I thank you. This episode is brought to you by Whoop. I've won Whoop for over four years now since way before they were a partner on the show and it is the only wearable I have ever stuck with because it's the best. It is so innocuous. You do not remember that you've got it on and yet it tracks absolutely everything 24 seven via something from your wrist. It tracks your heart rate, it tracks your sleep, your recovery, all of your workouts, your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, how much you're breathing throughout the night. It puts all of this into an app and spits out very simple, easy to understand and fantastically usable data. It's phenomenal. I am a massive, massive fan of Whoop and that is why it's the only wearable that I've ever stuck with. You can join for free, pay nothing for the brand new Whoop 4 strap, plus you get your first month for free and there's a 30-day money back guarantee. So you can buy it for free, try it for free and if you do not like it, after 29 days, they will give you your money back. Head to join.whoop.com/modernwisdom. That's join.whoop.com/modernwisdom.
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