How to Be More Optimistic Without Faking It | Dr. Deepika Chopra | Happiness | E527

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby · Jun 1, 2026 · 1h 9m · transcript

By the end of the gratitude journal, the breath work, the affirmation in the mirror, you felt worse, not better. You're not failing at positivity. You're using tools that were never designed to do what you're asking them to do. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Deepika Chopra, the clinical health psychologist known as The Optimism Doctor and the author of the new book The Power of Real Optimism. Deepika has spent over a decade studying why optimism is a skill, not a personality trait, and her work has appeared everywhere from the TODAY Show to Forbes to Vogue. She joined me to explain why…