Episode 146: The How of Happiness Avoid Overthinking and Social Comparison

In the book, The How of Happiness, Dr. Sonja Lynbomirsky outlines 12 activities to increase overall happiness by shifting one's baseline. For 2025, each month will have an episode that talks about activities that can help increase happiness by adjusting that baseline upwards.

This month’s episode is about avoiding overthinking and social comparison. Tune in to learn about activities that research has shown to increase happiness. 

In the book, overthinking is defined as thinking too much, needlessly, passively, endlessly and excessive pondering the meanings, causses, and consequence of your character, your feelings, and your problems. This podcast reviews 5 strategies to help stop overthinking

 Social comparison is comparing yourself to others and is natural in our society. From a young age, we get compared to our fellow students in school, to our fellow teammates when playing sports, and possibly to our siblings by our parents/teachers/other adults. Social comparison can both be motivating and demoralizing. The key is to focus on the positive aspects. 

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