The Art of Brilliance Podcast

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Ever wondered why some things only make sense after someone points them out?

That’s the energy of this episode - Andy sitting in a Wembley car park, paying £60 an hour for parking and using the pressure of financial ruin to deliver a whistle-stop tour of the most obvious idea psychology somehow missed for 150 years.

From world-famous double acts like fish & chips and Laurel & Hardy, he lands on one glorious truth... suitcases and wheels existed for millennia before anyone thought to combine them.

And that, he argues, is exactly what happened to the science of wellbeing. Psychology studied everything that goes wrong with humans... and barely touched the humans who were actually thriving.

What follows is a funny, nerdy, surprisingly gripping story about grumbly bonobos, forehead real estate, early brain evolution, ice-pick lobotomies (grim), and how a American psychologist accidentally blew the doors off his own profession by saying, “Hang on - why don’t we study what’s right with people?”

Andy loops it all back with one big idea - positive psychology is just suitcases finally meeting wheels. Something obvious in hindsight, but completely game-changing once you see it.

Tune in if you want a smart, enjoyable reminder that flourishing isn’t fluffy - it’s overdue, it’s scientific, and it’s hiding in plain sight.

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The Art of Brilliance PodcastBy Art of Brilliance / Andy Cope

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