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Pushkin if you're hoping to make big changes to your life in 2025, you're probably viewing those goals through a lens that's very much focused on yourself.
I want to achieve this or I want to become like that.
The whole idea of self improvement involves centering ourselves, putting our own hopes and worries in the spotlight.
But if you're feeling this self improvement bug in the new year, you may need to get over yourself.
And I mean that in the nicest way possible, because the science shows that checking your ego may be a faster path to happiness than you think.
But how can you get over yourself?
And what are some strategies for taking yourself out of the spotlight?
Today we'll get some tips for from Bruce Hood.
Bruce is a professor at the University of Bristol in England and the author of the Science of Seven Lessons for Living.
Well, like me, Bruce turned to happiness science after seeing the mental health crisis that his students were going through.
But Bruce and I share a bond that goes beyond our shared study of well being.
You know, I've reached 25 years at Bristol University here and I've just been applying for a teaching fellowship where they ask you to reflect upon your career and how you felt you've made an impact.
Obviously, I talk about this new recent kind of change into the work on happiness, and I attributed that to you, Laurie.
And I make a big point of saying that this is an interesting situation where the student is now mentoring the tutor because we met when I was visiting MIT and you were coming from Harvard as this kind of fiery young undergraduate working in comparative psychology at the time.
And then I applied for a job at Harvard.
It ended up being one of the professors there.
And I don't know if you remember this, Laurie, but you were an undergraduate at the time.
But I let you take my graduate course.
And the reason I did is I told people later on that Laurie had a much better way of explaining difficult concepts than I did.