What if becoming happier involved practice rather than waiting for circumstances to change? Valerie Alexander uses the metaphor of learning a second language to explain her approach. She discusses unhappiness, neural pathways, and inclusion, with reflections from a career that included corporate securities law before her work on happiness.
What You'll Learn
- How Valerie's language-learning metaphor reframes changing a familiar emotional habit.
- Why repeated practice and the people around you matter in her approach.
- How happiness and inclusion became connected priorities in her work.
Key Topics
Happiness practice; inclusion; emotional habits; neural pathways; workplace well-being
Guest Bio
Valerie Alexander is a happiness and inclusion expert and author of Happiness as a Second Language.
Chapters & Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to Big Meow
00:45 Connecting happiness and inclusion
10:50 An unexpected legal career
15:10 Learning happiness like a language
20:45 Challenging assumptions about others
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