How to Train Your Brain For Happiness

Train your brain for happiness. Happiness professor Jay Kumar shares insights, exercises, and techniques from cutting-edge research in brain science and behavior.

Happiness at Work

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

1. 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

2. Pleasure vs. Happiness

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. The Happiness Strategy of Contribution

• ConTRIBEution
• Your need to feel needed
• Psychological rewards

6. The Happiness Strategy of Connection

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

7. The Happiness Strategy of Compassion

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