Ashish Kothari on Neuroplasticity, Joy, and Mindful Living

Truth Tastes Funny with Hersh Rephun

C'MON GET HAPPY!!! Ashish Kothari is an executive coach, author, consultant and founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations make flourishing their competitive edge and operate at their fullest potential. In his best-selling book, “Hardwired for Happiness,” Ashish outlines an easy-to-follow recipe that can help anyone increase joy, health, love and meaning in their lives.

Prior to starting Happiness Squad, Ashish Kothari was a Partner at the global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company and spent over two decades helping thousands of leaders and their organizations achieve breakthrough performance through increasing their effectiveness, building more human centric cultures, and transforming capabilities at scale.

Connect with Ashish

Website: www.happinesssquad.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishkothari1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/myhappinesssquad/

(0:00) Introduction to Truth Tastes Funny and neuroplasticity (1:07) Introducing Ashish Kothari and sources of joy (3:55) Mindfulness, gratitude, and maintaining equanimity (6:25) Joy as a base state and the brain's negative bias (16:11) Happiness Squad's approach to fostering change (22:54) Human touch, analog interactions, and counting blessings (27:47) Balancing future planning with living in the moment (30:27) Community importance and seeking help (32:05) Closing remarks and call to action