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What’s the relationship between happiness and resilience?
Neil Pasricha explores the art of happy lawyering
Neil Pasricha—author of The Happiness Equation, The Book of Awesome, and other books—discusses how his journey of overcoming failure and trauma has led him to seek a joy-filled life. Learn five practices that can foster happiness for lawyers and uncover the connection between happiness and resilience.
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Gratitude is just the beginning
In this episode, Neil discusses how lawyers and others who spend a lot of time focusing on problems can train themselves to have a more positive mindset, setting the foundation for building happiness and resilience.
It’s a false assemblage that we've put in front of our brains that you need to go, 'can do--want to do--do.' That's not true. It's actually the opposite. It's you have to do, then you think you can do, and then you want to do. So a different way of saying it is we grow up thinking that motivation leads to action, but it turns out that action leads to motivation.
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Lori Lorenzo: Welcome to Resilient. I'm Lori Lorenzo, Deloitte research and insights director for our Chief Legal Officer Program, and host of the Resilient Chief Legal Officer track.
What does happiness have to do with resilience? In this episode, which is part of our influencer series, Neil Pasricha, author of The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome, shares unique insights and practices for fostering happiness, and the connection happiness has to fostering resilience.
Neil Pasricha: It’s a false assemblage that we've put in front of our brains that you need to go, "can do--want to do--do." That's not true. It's actually the opposite. It's you have to do, then you think you can do, and then you want to do. So a different way of saying it is we grow up thinking that motivation leads to action, but it turns out that action leads to motivation.
Lori Lorenzo: I hope you enjoyed this preview. For the full episode, go to your favorite podcast app and search Resilient. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Spotify, or wherever you go to get your podcasts. If you're curious about legal leadership and trends that are impacting today's in-house counsel, I encourage you to visit our Chief Legal Officer Program site on deloitte.com.
Until next time, remain resilient.
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