Topic: Scott Crabtree

The Team Super Dad podcast opens with a focus on the scientific benefits of happiness for health and business. The host welcomes happiness expert Scott Crabtree to the show, noting the relevance of the topic for fathers navigating relationships and family life in early 2021. References are made to the late Tony Hsieh and his book, Delivering Happiness, as foundational influences on the discussion.

Scott Crabtree describes his professional journey from a successful career in software and video game development to founding Happy Brain Science. After discovering Sonja Lyubomirsky's book, The How of Happiness, while working at Intel, he realized that happiness is a result of specific choices rather than chance. This realization led him to leave his corporate role to become a translator between scientific researchers and the working world.

The host recounts interviewing Scott Crabtree about the science of happiness on the same day as the January 6th Capitol riot. They discuss the jarring contrast between positive psychology and the images of the insurrection. The conversation focuses on specific figures from the event, including the "QAnon Shaman" Jake Angeli, and the lack of logic behind the attempted coup.