Topic: Sonja Lyubomirsky

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.

Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert and psychologist Chris Peterson both identified "social" and "other people" as the core of happiness science. Research by Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky indicates that acting like an extrovert—by being more outgoing in daily interactions—provides a significant happiness boost for both natural extroverts and introverts. While social contact may tire introverts more, the resulting increase in well-being remains consistent across personality types.