The 3 Good Podcast

In this episode, Sukh talks about research on resilience and what we can learn from the different papers.

Resilience under conditions of extreme stress: a multilevel perspective - Dante Cicchetti https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948722/

The Impact of Hope and Resilience on Multiple Factors in Neurosurgical Patients: Devika Duggal, Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman and Taylor Liberta https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120968/

Positive mental health and its relationship with resilience - Kalpana Srivastava https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530291/

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After a 3 month hiatus, Sukh returns to 3 Good Podcast to talk about happiness.

He talks about how we are asking the wrong questions when it comes to being happy. There are a range of things which influence if we feel happy or not: how we express our emotions, the language we use for appreciation, what kind of meaningful things we're doing, the impact of money, and the quality of our relationships we have.

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Sukh takes time at the beginning of the episode to discuss his self-care routine in the face of COVID-19. He shares how for the first few weeks of working from home he was almost paralysed by doing very little for his self-care, and then took time to examine what he could do.

The main part of the episode is a book review of Grit by Angela Duckworth. The book answers the question, is talent enough for success to take place? Angela's research is fascinating and raises important insight into what enables success. Spoiler alert, talent alone isn't enough. The book's subtitle, The Power of Passion and Perseverance, gives an indication of what the book covers.

You can buy the book from Amazon here.

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In this episode, Sukh starts by addressing some myths about positive psychology:

- That if you cultivate positivity it means dismissing or not feeling negative emotions

- That if you are facing a physical health or mental health condition and aren't thinking positively, then you're causing your own problems

- That if you're feeling a 'negative' emotion, you can control it

He also talks about how to build positivity by paying attention to certain types of activity, and making them a more regular part of our daily habits.

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In episode 34, Sukh discusses the everyday boring, routine stuff we should be doing, but don't, that would lead to a better life. He put out a tweet on Twitter asking the question: "What are the boring/routine things that people should do, but don't, that would enable a good life to be had?"

He's incorporated many of the responses and reads them out as part of the episode. You can read the thread here https://twitter.com/sukhpabial/status/1233838493484363777

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The book reference was Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker.

In this episode, Sukh focuses on why we talk about self-awareness as doing 'the work'? What does self-awareness actually help us with? How can some people be self-aware and yet awful people? What can we do to have a stronger moral and ethical compass after self-awareness has been raised?

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In this episode, Sukh discusses why it's so difficult to find empathy with others. What are the things at play that challenge empathy? Why is it difficult to create the time, energy, and personal space for empathy to be more readily available?

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In this episode, Sukh discuss if it's ok to be angry, how we understand anger, and what we can do to release our anger in healthy and appropriate ways.

The podcast episodes Sukh talks about, are:

Freakonomics Radio Ep 316 - A conversation with PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi http://freakonomics.com/podcast/indra-nooyi-update/

Freakonomics Radio Season 8 Ep 14 - Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth? http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-decides-how-much-a-life-is-worth_radio/

Brene Brown TED talk - The power of vulnerability https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

Brene Brown TED talk - Listening to shame https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame

Under the Skin podcast - Russel Brand and Brene Brown - Vulnerability and power https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/85-vulnerability-and-power-with-brene-brown/

Brene Brown - The Call to Courage - Netflix Special https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81010166

The Learning and Development Podcast with David James https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-learning-development-podcast/id1466927523

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In this episode, Sukh talks about how understanding different mental models can help us understand more about the human condition. It's a bit of a difficult one to cover in one episode, and probably needs further exploration.

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