An evolutionary psychologist has revealed what two choices you can make that are based on your overall happiness.

Dr. Gad Saad, who is a professor of marketing at Concordia University, sat down with the podcast host Diary of a CEO Steven Bartlettwhere he claimed to know the secret of happiness.

Saad, who often talks about the beliefs he feels are destroying logic, science, reason and common sense in the world, said the most important choices you will make in life are your job and your partner.

He explained, “By far the two choices that will give me either the greatest happiness or the greatest misery are my choice of spouse and my choice of profession.

‘ITand we break it down very simply, if I wake up next to a person in bed and say “oh shit, not that again”, I’m not off to a good start, but if I wake up next to a person and go “oh my God, how did I do it, what a delight wake up next to this person? Well, that’s good.

Dr. Gad Saad, who is a professor of marketing at Concordia University, revealed what two choices you can make that are based on your overall happiness.

“After waking up with this wonderful person, I go and do things in my daily activities that bring me existential joy, what a great day… It all gives me a lot of purpose and meaning.

“And then at night I go back to that nice person, I’ve cracked the code of happiness. The devil is in the details, what can I do to maximize my chances? I make the right choices.

“Life is a statistical game, statistical vagaries exist, so all I can do is increase your chances of happiness, I can’t guarantee anything, you could never smoke and get lung cancer, but smoking doesn’t reduce your definitely the chances of lung cancer. very much.’

Elsewhere, Saad revealed that the secret to a happy marriage is aligning your core values, saying “birds of a feather flock together.”

He explained: “Butterflies, hormones don’t last. That it doesn’t mean you’re not still sexually attracted to your partner 25 years later, but that won’t get the train going.

“My wife loves that I am a truth teller, my wife loves that I have purity. For example, both of us have never been the type to seek to trigger jealousy in the other.

“A lot of people will say ‘oh you know when you trigger jealousy that spices things up well my wife has never done one thing but that’s because she has a very high standard of personal conduct.’

Saad sat down with Diary of a CEO podcast host Steven Bartlett, where he claimed to know the secret to happiness

In the three-hour podcast, Saad covered many other controversial topics, claiming that the most dangerous man a woman will ever meet is her husband, adding that he often goes into a “criminal rage” at the suspicion of deception because it is evolutionary.

Although he said that the scientific explanation may make it seem justified, it is morally wrong.

“We all have a desire to wander, but we don’t necessarily instantiate that desire through overt behavior…

“One of the difficulties of life is how to navigate the Darwinian threads that pull in different directions,” he said.

Bartlett said he hopes people listening “know that everything here is not an endorsement of one thing, but an evolutionary explanation for one thing.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the psychologist revealed the number one factor most likely to predict child abuse in a household.

He claimed that having a stepparent in a home with children was the “number one predictor” of child abuse – saying it was “a hundred times more predictive” than any other sign.

“If there’s alcoholism in the home, if one of the parents was abused in their past, so they’re imitating that behavior on their children — (they’re) all reasonable (reasons),” he told the podcast host.

“If there’s a stepparent in the family, there’s a hundredfold increase in child abuse if the household doesn’t consist of two biological parents,” he said.

The conservative psychologist went on to explain that the Cinderella fable is a universally known story for this reason.

“It speaks to an evolutionary principle of the nasty stepmother (who) is only differentially nasty to her stepdaughter — she’s actually very, very nice to her two biological daughters,” he said.

Saad went on to use lion packs as an example to explain the “evolutionary explanation”, saying that lion packs are very social groups and that there is very high parental investment, unlike other feline species where males are only used in reproductive purposes.

“(In the lion pride, the males invest heavily in their cubs (and) what happens is there are two or three dominant males in a pride and they kick out all the young males that come along now,” he explained.

From there, Saad says, “frustrated young men” wander around looking to take over a pride.

The author went on to say that young lions will challenge the dominant males of a group and for a time repel attacks until they get too old and give in or die.

“Now, when the new lions come, what is the first thing they do on the agenda? (They are killing the children) in a complete systematic genocide of infanticide,” he said.

He said this is because males don’t want to invest in another male’s cubs, and although females try to fight at first, once they lose, they become “sexually receptive” to new males out of pride.

Saad added that he does not justify childhood sexual abuse through science, but rather explains biologically why it occurs.