How to Live a Psychologically Rich Life with Shigehiro Oishi

Are you living a psychologically rich life? In this episode we discuss what it means to be psychologically rich and how you can generate more richness. In "Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life", Shigehiro Oishi, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, shares his research and the ways leading a psychologically rich life can transform how you prioritize your days and goals.

As Shige shares, “a psychologically rich life is a life filled with diverse, unusual, interesting experiences that change your perspective; a life with twists and turns; a dramatic, eventful life instead of a simple and straightforward one”.

For those of you who feel that something is missing from your lives, or that your dreams and goals don't fit with societal expectations, this conversation is for you. Shige Oishi has given us the language and concept for living our lives in search of experience, adventure, learning and connection. 

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Topics Discussed:

05:07 - The the three pillars of a happy life 

14:13 - How narrating your experiences enriches the experience

20:12 - A psychologically rich day involves a wide range of emotions

22:18 - Happiness used to be good luck and fortune, but now happiness is personal success

25:41 - Happiness is more like a batting average

32:03 - Happiness is not the intensity but the frequency of positive emotion

36:13 - As we age, curiosity and, and exploration wane, and how to balance it

39:09 - psychological richness mindset can help deal with difficult life situations