Joy is a Risk Worth Taking (#324)

What if joy isn’t a reward for when life goes well, but the thing that helps us survive when it doesn’t?

Psychologist and Stanford lecturer Kelly McGonigal reveals that joy is not the same as happiness, and that many of us quietly push it away without realizing it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why happiness needs everything to be good, while joy needs just one thing
• Why so many of us protect ourselves from joy, and why anxiety can feel safer
• How power and success can make connection, and joy, harder to reach
• Why people in war zones, hospitals and hospice understand joy best
• How to follow the news without being consumed by outrage and fear
• The simple practice of “meeting joy with joy”

Joy is not something you wait for.

It is something you can create for yourself and for others.

Kelly McGonigal is the author of Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking.