Author Neil Pasricha: The Happiness Equation - Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published March 24, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT

03/24/16 - Thursday’s Topical Currents begins with the writer of the popular “Book of Awesome,” Neil

Pasricha. His latest book is THE HAPPINESS EQUATION, which points out many counterintuitive components of satisfaction: Success doesn’t lead to happiness. Multi-tasking is a myth, and retiring is probably a mistake.

Also, in the second half of the program, Linda Gassenheimerjoins scientist and food-waste geek Dana Gunders. The average family kitchen throws out more than one hundred dollars-worth of groceries a month.

That’s Topical Currents . . . Thursday, at 1pm.

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WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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