“Positive emotions open up your thinking. They broaden and build, they help you build relationships more quickly. They help you solve problems more easily. They help you reach your goals faster, as well, as obviously, it's helping you feel better."
Niyc Pidgeon
Feb 9, 2022
EFR 574: The Science of Success - Simple Steps to Hack Happiness Using Positive Psychology With Niyc Pidgeon
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EFR 574: The Science of Success - Simple Steps to Hack Happiness Using Positive Psychology With Niyc Pidgeon
Niyc Pidgeon is a life coach and the author of the best-selling book, Now Is Your Chance, which talks about living a happy life by implementing positive psychology principles into your life.
Starting her career as a personal trainer, helping people with their health and fitness goals, Niyc was often approached by her clients as a counsellor for their emotional and mental issues. Those interactions made her realize the intangible link – between the mind and the body, making her want to explore it in depth. Eventually, Niyc studied positive psychology and made it her mission to change the lives of humans using its principles.
In today’s discussion, Niyc and Chase unwind the core principles of positive psychology and how it drives noticeable change in the lives of humans. Niyc explains why positive psychology isn’t only about happy things but instead involves finding the light in situations, however bad they may be. As research states, it’s about finding ‘three positive emotions for every negative emotion’ (the ratio may vary depending on your situation and state, but the principle stays intact). It’s about breaking away from rumination and focussing on the ‘now’.
You’ll learn to differentiate a fixed mindset from a growth mindset and discover the huge importance of cultivating a growth mindset to stay positive. Moreover, you’ll learn the changes that can be brought into your mindset by being non-judgmental, curious, and operating at your edge: all foundations to cultivating positive psychology.
Remember, your emotions are likely contagious; you can always choose to spread a smile.
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Key Highlights
Positive psychology or building a positive mindset doesn’t involve only the big joys or milestones. Anything small or significant that helps you change your mindset for the better is a step to building a positive mindset.
Rumination is self-destructive. Worrying about the future is also self-destructive. Positive psychology is about making conscious efforts to break out of the cycle and focussing on the ‘now’.
Get real, realize what parts of your situations are under your control and what is not. Choose to take a small positive step in the right direction for the thing that you can control – this will help you reclaim your power and energy back, and you’ll be able to navigate life more productively.
A fixed mindset is detrimental to your happiness and growth as it tends to categorize everything into either success or failure. The growth mindset teaches the importance of embracing the journey and assessing how you’re doing, which is the best way to evaluate if you’re performing your best.
Emotional contagion is the idea that you can spread good vibes through simple gestures – even just by smiling.
Quotes from Niyc
“What I now teach is how you can have success and have really strong personal systems and personal boundaries to actually provide a scaffolding inside of yourself, inside of your day, so that you can feel awesome, whilst also being able to propel yourself forwards and get the money, success, stages, whatever it is that you want.”
“Get real, what is the fear? What's the worst thing that can happen? [...] What part of this is in your control and what is not in your control? Let go of the part that's not in your control and then choose to take a small positive step in the right direction for the thing that you can control, you literally reclaim all of your power and energy back, and you can start to navigate that in a much more productive way.”
“What we know is that positive emotions open up your thinking. So they broaden and build, they help you build relationships more quickly. They help you solve problems more easily. They help you reach your goals faster, as well, as obviously, it's helping you feel better."
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