What’s the Point of Happiness, Anyway?, with Dr. Bill Von Hippel

<p>#371: Psychology professor Bill von Hippel explains the evolutionary science behind how we’re hardwired as humans.</p><p>We’re wired to be social, to connect, to communicate and cooperate.</p><p>We’re wired to want to learn and teach, to build a collective body of knowledge that stretches beyond what any single individual could ever learn in their lifetime.</p><p>We’re wired to feel surges of happiness that fade, so that we’re intrinsically motivated to keep repeating behaviors that lead to additional surges of happiness.</p><p>Once we understand the evolutionary science behind what makes...