You Only Control 40% of Your Happiness, Here's How to Use It

Linda Hand spent four decades building and leading teams at the highest levels of Silicon Valley tech, then went back to Berkeley to study the peer-reviewed science behind why some people recover from setbacks quickly and others stay stuck. In this conversation, she and Bernie unpack hedonic adaptation, the research-backed 50/10/40 breakdown of what actually drives our happiness, and why self-awareness is the lever that makes everything else possible. Linda shares practical, research-backed tools, gratitude letters, weekly reflection, reframing the internal narrative, that listeners can put to use immediately, both in their careers and across every one of the Five Life Pillars: Health, Fitness, Career, Relationships, and Legacy.