{"podcast":{"title":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","slug":"3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","podcast_index_feed_id":230850,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/117111/destinations/671382.xml","website_url":"http://www.3books.co","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/9/e/9/e9e9657d59ec593416c3140a3186d450/3Books_Logo_2022.jpg","author":"Neil Pasricha","episode_count":216,"summary":"3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 22-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Shirley The Nurse, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Angie Thomas, David Mitchell, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume, and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single full moon all the way up to 10:37 PM EST on April 26, 2040. 3 Books is an Apple \"Best Of\" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bes…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:19:17.860573+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850"},"episode":{"title":"Chapter 158: Sonja Lyubomirsky helps harness happiness by honing hearty habits","slug":"chapter-158-sonja-lyubomirsky-helps-harness-happiness-by-honing-hearty-habits","published_at":"2026-03-03T11:37:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-158-sonja-lyubomirsky-helps-harness-happiness-by-honing-hearty-habits","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","url":"https://threebooks.libsyn.com/chapter-158-sonja-lyubomirsky-helps-harness-happiness-by-honing-hearty-habits","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/threebooks/3BOOKS_-_CH158_-_Audio_Fullmix_260206.mp3?dest-id=671382","summary":"​ Sonja Lyubomirsky ​ is one of the most influential happiness researchers of our time. Sonja moved to the United States from Moscow at age 9 in the 70s. She went to Harvard and Stanford in the 80s and began studying happiness in 1989 ... longer than almost anyone else alive! Positive psychology wasn't \"founded\" by ​ Martin Seligman ​ and ​ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ​ for another decade. Sonja has published hundreds of papers including her ​ Most Cited 2005 paper ​ which defined the field by flipping a long-held assumption on its head: That happiness doesn't follow success but causes it. Sonja is now following up her bestsellers ' ​ The How of Happiness ​ ' and ' ​ The Myths Of Happiness ​ ' with a new book called ' ​ How to Feel Loved ​ ', a joint effort co-written with relationship expert ​ Dr. Harry Reis ​ , which is a culmination of 30 years of research that all point to one central truth: that feeling loved (not just being loved!) is a crucial ingredient of happiness. In this conversation we talk about the four horsemen that can ruin a marriage, what MDMA does to our brains, why small talk doesn't build connection, the best advice for dating, how our brains respond to love, the single best way to feel happier today, and, of course, the eminent Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky's 3 most formative books. Let's flip the page to Chapter 158 now...","meta_description":"​ Sonja Lyubomirsky ​ is one of the most influential happiness researchers of our time. Sonja moved to the United States from Moscow at age 9 in the 70s.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5268,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/episodes/chapter-158-sonja-lyubomirsky-helps-harness-happiness-by-honing-hearty-habits/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-158-sonja-lyubomirsky-helps-harness-happiness-by-honing-hearty-habits.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}