Today we’re exploring one of the most important topics when it comes to our personal happiness, achievement, and general social functioning: Emotional Intelligence, with Dr. Daniel Goleman.
Rick Hanson
Author / Psychologist
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Biography
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His seven books have been published in 33 languages, and include Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain, and Mother Nurture – with over a million copies in English alone. He's the founder of the Global Compassion Coalition and the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, as well as the co-host of the Being Well Podcast – which has been downloaded over 15 million times. His free newsletters have over 260,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those in need. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on CBS, NPR, the BBC, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and has taught in meditation centers worldwide. He and his wife live in Northern California and have two adult children. He loves the wilderness and taking a break from emails.
Articles
Being Well Podcast: Bringing Strength to Compassion with Kristin Neff
Learn how to be compassionate under challenging circumstances, without tipping into anger.
Being Well Podcast: How Not to Become Your Parents
Today we explore the innate tendencies we have in our important relationships, and what we can do about it.
Being Well Podcast: Self-Compassion with Kristin Neff
On this episode, we’re joined by one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, Dr. Kristin Neff, the first to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago.
Being Well Podcast: Mailbag – Building Resilient Relationships
On today’s episode of the podcast Forrest and I answer questions from listeners related to our important relationships. The first explores how we can raise resilient children, while the second focuses on managing challenging relationships in the workplace.
How Your Brain Works
Dr. Rick Hanson explains the neuroscience of how our brain has evolved, how it works, and what that means for us in regards to emotional/social regulation.
Is Life Actually Suffering?
Discover what causes suffering and learn how we can rest in fullness with the experiences we are already having.
Being Well Podcast: The Science of a Meaningful Life
We are joined by Jason Marsh, founding editor of Greater Good Magazine, to help us explore key, research-based insights into living a meaningful life.
Compassionate Assertiveness
This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on warming the heart and assertiveness that is grounded in the underlying ventures of Buddhism that have to do with wise speech, action, livelihood, and conduct.
The Science of Hardwiring Happiness and Resilience
In this episode of Jordan Harbinger podcast (April 2019), Rick and Jordan talk about why learning to rely on ourselves rather than others (or the world at large) is ultimately empowering, and how to ensure we’re focused on the right metrics for emotional health and happiness.
Being Well Podcast: Confidence or Narcissism?
How can we take in positive experiences and develop a strong sense of self without developing narcissistic traits or falling prey to narcissistic tendencies?
Perceptions of Reality
Just because we disagree about perceptions of reality does not mean that there is not an actual reality, nor does it mean that it is not knowable.