Co-hosts Robert and Julie answer some of the most curious questions each week, like "How does greed work?" and "Can money buy happiness?" The Mindset Zone is all about leaving fixed views of the world behind and cultivating what host Ana Melikian, PhD calls a "growth mindset" in their place.
In "The Blue Zones of Happiness," Dan Buettner wrote about pockets of the world where people live longer, happier, healthier lives: enclaves that tend to have abundant sunshine, green spaces, an emphasis on fitness and access to whole foods.
Since half of the respondents were female, this list reflects places where women are able to utilize their strengths to do what they do best every day, one of the 15 'cowbell' metrics identified in the research," says Buettner, who is a National Geographic Explorer and the author of the book, The Blue Zones of Happiness.
Buettner just released his latest book, The Blue Zones of Happiness, which reveals the secrets of the world's happiest places (from Costa Rica to Denmark to Singapore), and shows how to apply their lessons to our own lives.
Which happiness traps keep me in my comfort zone or make me feel safe?
For others, the constantly changing, risk-taking atmosphere of the challenge zone is essential to job happiness.
Needless to say, the "Just Friends" script changed once again to reflect Bender's happiness at moving out of the friend zone.
One hypothesis suggested that the more diverse the activities engaged in by retirees, either in the urban or the rural zone, the greater would be their happiness.
We often get stuck in a comfort zone that we mislabel as love or happiness.
