Hi, I'm working on a podcast about happiness and I'm just asking people what makes them happy.

Sunny days.

No stress.

Music usually.

Family, community, my daughter.

Imagine your body had a happiness button with a direct line to your brain,

and every time you pressed it you felt a jolt of joy, satisfaction, and contentment.

You could get happy in an instant whenever you wanted it.

Would you use it?

Would you press the button?

You know, I've asked this question to my students at UC Berkeley for years and most of them say no.

They would rather find true happiness on their own in a genuine way, even if it means working and struggling for it.

That happiness without their own personal pursuit really

doesn't mean much at all. So the question is, where do you go to find happiness, to pursue happiness?

You know, the New Age gurus and the books, the self-help books in the bookstores certainly have lots of answers or at least they think they do.

But science has really taken a crack at it.

It's the science I cover in my human happiness course at Berkeley.

It's the science we cover at Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center,

which we launched 15 years ago.

And it's the science that we covered in a new online class,

the science of happiness that reached hundreds of thousands of students

around the world. and it's the science

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