Today’s episode is all about joyful living. What it is, what it isn’t, how to get more of it and how it differs from happiness.

Stemming from Brooke's intention to try and find more joy in 2024, this conversation is delightfully and unexpectedly wide-ranging, and in it Ben and Brooke explore:


the definition of joy, and why it means so many different things to so many different people


why much of the literature around joy is religious or spiritual


how joy differs from happiness and how it is similar 


the role that alcohol has on our ability to experience happiness and joy (and how Brooke's experience has changed since she stopped drinking)


how to adopt a lens of joy and happiness to life when you’re not a joyful person by default


why choosing joy is a revolutionary act


what the difference is between choosing joy and toxic positivity


how we can add more joy to our lives

Head over to The Tortoise for the full show notes, including links to the articles mentioned in today's episode, and if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter while you're there. 

Thanks for listening! 

Today’s episode is all about joyful living. What it is, what it isn’t, how to get more of it and how it differs from happiness.
Stemming from Brooke's intention to try and find more joy in 2024, this conversation is delightfully and unexpectedly wide-ranging, and in it Ben and Brooke explore:
<ul>
<li>
the definition of joy, and why it means so many different things to so many different people
</li>
<li>
why much of the literature around joy is religious or spiritual
</li>
<li>
how joy differs from happiness and how it is similar 
</li>
<li>
the role that alcohol has on our ability to experience happiness and joy (and how Brooke's experience has changed since she stopped drinking)
</li>
<li>
how to adopt a lens of joy and happiness to life when you’re not a joyful person by default
</li>
<li>
why choosing joy is a revolutionary act
</li>
<li>
what the difference is between choosing joy and toxic positivity
</li>
<li>
how we can add more joy to our lives
</li>
</ul>
Head over to <a href="https://brookemcalary.substack.com/podcast">The Tortoise for the full show notes</a>, including links to the articles mentioned in today's episode, and if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter while you're there. 
Thanks for listening!

Fast and slow. Young and old. Hard and soft. Open and closed. Real and fake. Hide and seek. Pleasure and pain… Life is full of dualities and extremes and pick-a-sides. But most of our days are spent in the messy middle. 

the tortoise and the hare is a weekly show from the crew who brought you The Slow Home Podcast (RIP). Each episode is a human-made, homegrown, perfectly imperfect conversation about the either/or of life and the vast grey area in between.

Because we all contain multitudes. So let’s talk about them.

Fast and slow. Young and old. Hard and soft. Open and closed. Real and fake. Hide and seek. Pleasure and pain&hellip; Life is full of dualities and extremes and pick-a-sides. But most of our days are spent in the messy middle.&nbsp;
the tortoise and the hare is a weekly show from the crew who brought you The Slow Home Podcast (RIP). Each episode is a human-made, homegrown, perfectly imperfect conversation about the either/or of life and the vast grey area in between.
Because we all contain multitudes. So let&rsquo;s talk about them.

We all contain multitudes. So let's talk about them.

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What is joy? And how does it differ from happiness? Can we learn to be more joyful? And what does that look like? Brooke and Ben dig into joy in Episode 11 of The Tortoise podcast.