Can you share a few of your major conclusions?

Well, I think we're talking about basically two things, and they're connected.

It's body and mind.

And, you know, in my book, The Gratitude Diaries, which sort of got the first lot of attention about gratitude and happiness for me, I was talking about changing your perspective.

And I was talking about how, as we all know, you don't have to rely on the events that happen.

You can figure out how you want to interpret them, this spin that you want to put on them.

We're all the spinmeisters of our own lives.

At their exceedingly high levels of success, have you discovered that happiness takes different forms than for the rest of us?

Can you share a few of your major conclusions?

Well, I think, um, I think we're talking about basically two things, and they're connected.

It's body and mind.

And, you know, in, in my book, The Gratitude Diaries, um, which sort of got the first, a, a lot of attention about gratitude and happiness for me, I was talking about changing your perspective, and I was talking about how, as we all know, you don't have to rely on the events that happen.

You can figure out how you want to interpret them, the spin that you wanna put on them.

We're all the, we're all the spinmeisters of our own lives.

And I often find myself very specifically doing that, trying to reframe a situation, stopping and thinking, "How can I find the good in this situation? How can I stop and find something positive in what may not necessarily seem like a positive experience?" And in the follow-up book that I did that's recently come out in paperback, What Your Body Knows About Happiness-

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But that doesn't do anything to solve the problem.

It's not just that we live in a patriarchy, but the patriarchy lives in us.

It's very hard sometimes to realize how affected we are by the ethos.

It becomes the very air we breathe.

And so if you're expected to do something and everybody you see around you is behaving in that particular way, it doesn't occur to you that there's something else.

Or if it does, it's very, very difficult to achieve.

I spoke to so many wonderful women geniuses, women doing extraordinary work, for this book, but I'm also aware that each one of them had to figure out her own path.

Being recognized as a genius isn't a male versus female issue, but rather it's the construction of societal norms that hold people back.

But that doesn't do anything to solve the problem.

It's not just that we live in a patriarchy, but the patriarchy lives in us.

It's very hard sometimes to realize how affected we are by the ethos.

It becomes the very air we breathe.

And so if you're expected to do something and everybody you see around you is behaving in that particular way, it doesn't occur to you that there's something else.

Or if it does, it's very, very difficult to achieve something.

I spoke to so many wonderful women geniuses, women doing extraordinary work for this book.

Being recognized as a genius isn't a male versus female issue, but rather it's the construction of societal norms that hold people back.