How to Train Your Brain For Happiness

How to Train Your Brain For Happiness

54mIntermediate2020-09-23

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Course details

Train your brain for happiness! In this course, happiness professor Jay Kumar, PhD shares insights, exercises, and techniques from cutting-edge research in brain science and behavior. The series investigates the concept of happiness and introduces scientific ways of increasing happiness in your life. You can learn how to unlock the brain’s ability to build social connections and trust among teams, coworkers, customers, and other stakeholders; identify opportunities for creating deeper, more meaningful relationships; and leverage four fundamental strategies to help you promote happiness in the workplace and impact the bottom line. Plus, learn how to build enthusiasm about your company, products, and services and create passionate members of your brand or company tribe. Anyone interested in using happiness to reach their full potential in work and life—including business leaders, HR managers, and marketers—should take this course to increase their happiness quotient.

Topics include:
Why you should invest in happiness
Defining happiness
Overcoming brain wiring
Controlling the uncontrollable
Separating pleasure from happiness
Connecting with others
Trusting your social brain

Skills covered

Well-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Happiness at Work

  • The pursuit of happiness
  • Why invest in happiness
  • The social brain
  • What is happiness
  • What happiness means to you

Wiring Your Brain for Happiness

  • Survival vs. happiness
  • Overcoming nature s brain wiring
  • Sad vs. happy brain
  • Real threats vs. perceived threats - Controlling the uncontrollable exercise

Pleasure vs. Happiness

  • Pleasure is not happiness
  • The pursuit of money or meaning
  • The inevitability of change - Overcome sad to accept change

Your Social Brain at Work

  • To tribe is to thrive
  • Your brain s need for connection
  • Trusting your social brain
  • The happiness equation - To tribe is to thrive

The Happiness Strategy of Comfort

  • Introduction
  • Fostering a work culture of comfort
  • Sense of psychological safety
  • Collective trust improves creativity, innovation, and the bottom line

The Happiness Strategy of Contribution

  • ConTRIBEution
  • Your need to feel needed
  • Psychological rewards

The Happiness Strategy of Connection

  • The age of disconnection
  • How connection manifests in the workplace
  • Connection to new ideas

The Happiness Strategy of Compassion

  • In a crisis - Tribe
  • Making kindness contagious
  • Compassion creates your happy brain
  • Happy brains make happy people
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