“The Root of Your Happiness” with Janice Kaplan (GWTW796)

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Where is the foundation of your happiness? For me, happiness was solely found in my mind. But after being introduced to today’s guest, I learned that there is a strong connection between happiness and the body. Janice Kaplan is the author of What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind, a new book diving into this topic with a wide range of stories, interviews, and studies. In this conversation, we explore a few of the mind-blowing studies and the myths dispelled along the way. We also talk about Janice’s approach to reinvention throughout her career, context-dependent memory and learning, the partnership between brain and body, how form creates function, and why creativity is enhanced by moving our bodies.

Show Links

• Janice Kaplan
• What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind by Janice Kaplan
• The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life by Janice Kaplan
• Quote by John Mulaney: “I don’t know what my body is for other than taking my head from room to room.”
• Strava
• Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
• Long Island by Colm Tóibín
• Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing, Including You by Brad Stulberg
• Midjourney prompt for episode art: the root of happiness, body in motion, abstract, surreal –ar 16:9