The Happiness Hustle

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben explore the idea of exploration and how travel can benefit our mindsets and happiness hustle journeys.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben discuss how social media skews our perception of reality and its negative effects, particularly on teenagers, while reminiscing about the social media days of yore.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben share anecdotes about their own experiences with stress and anxiety in their careers and talk about ways to deal with them in a productive way.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben "interview" ChatGPT about the science of happiness, creating a positive work environment, and how companies can promote the well-being of their employees.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben talk about the importance of having a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset and how we can cultivate that by being lifelong learners on our happiness hustle journeys.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben give updates on their own happiness hustle journeys over a couple of brewskis.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben dig into the topic of frustration, what causes us to get frustrated, and how we can deal with frustrating situations in our happiness hustle journeys.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben chat about hustle culture and the idea of the grind to suss out how it fits into the happiness hustle journey. Is the "hustle" in hustle culture the same as the "hustle" in the Happiness Hustle?

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben talk about the counterintuitive idea of doing nothing to aid productivity and the benefits of giving your brain a break.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben share their thoughts on the DIY mentality as a flipside to side hustles and how doing more things yourself can benefit your happiness hustle journey.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben review Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" and discuss possible real-world applications of Gladwell's observations and theories in the happiness hustle journey.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben explore the topic of patience, why it matters, and how we can be patient in our happiness hustle journeys.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben discuss the nuances of billing clients in the consulting world and some of the practices companies may use to make the numbers look good but that ultimately can hurt both employees and customers.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben chat about the benefits of widening our breadth of knowledge, creating more resilience to a variety of potential scenarios by expanding our skillsets, and how we can find value at the intersection of multiple disciplines.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben talk about applying the concept of empathy to the business space. Is it necessary? Can it be used effectively? Is it practical for companies to pursue?

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben share the latest in their own happiness hustle journeys over drinks (virtually), including a deep dive on raising rabbits, an update on Mike's YouTube venture, and a potential method to trick Ben into working out finally.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben review Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" and discuss their experiences with flow state and how they plan to put the book into practice.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben share their opinions on the 4-day workweek model, comparing shorter 32-hours weeks to 4 10-hour days, discussing companies that have implemented short workweeks successfully, and musing on the factors that allow these models to work in real life. Resources: https://wildbit.com/blog/how-to-implement-4-day-workweek

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben discuss pursuing social media as a source of income, diving into Mike's experience so far on YouTube and talking about how much work actually goes into it behind the scenes.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben get practical about reinventing yourself after thirty. Mike shares some steps that he has put into practice recently as he navigates his own reinvention.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben talk about how gamification can be leveraged in the happiness hustle journey, what motivates us to improve, and how we can trick ourselves into making forward progress.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben chat about the sunk cost fallacy, their own experiences with sunk costs, and how to avoid falling into the fallacy in your happiness hustle journey.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben reflect on their own career paths and how they've gotten hired in the past as well as other hiring anecdotes, and weight conventional versus unconventional job-seeking techniques. Resources: This Graphic Designer Wasn’t Able To Land A Job, So He Pretended To Be A Client

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben discuss giving an elevator pitch about yourself, what elements can make it successful, and how to fine tune it to your audience. Ben gets on the metaphorical stage with sweaty palms.

Send us Fan Mail Mike & Ben talk about what it looks like to teach up the chain by flipping the conventional model on its head and what's required for it to be successful.