366: Laurie Santos - The Science Of Well-Being (Psychology & The Good Life)

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🗓️ 24 May 2020

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Episode #366: Laurie Santos -

Laurie Santos is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She has been a featured TED speaker and has been listed in Popular Science as one of their "Brilliant Ten" young scientists in 2007 as well as in Time magazine as a "Leading Campus Celebrity" in 2013. In January 2018, her course titled Psychology and the Good Life became the most popular course in Yale's history, with approximately one-fourth of Yale's undergraduates enrolled.

Notes:

Sustaining excellence:
- Good habits: Form consistent routines
- Healthy: Exercise regularly
- Socialize with others
- They "offload dumb decisions"
Create a morning routine - Limit the wardrobe (limit mental energy spent on trivial things).
Harness the power of habits - "Set you exercise clothes out the night before."
- Do it at a consistent time each day no matter what. This decreases anxiety.
- For writing: Stop in the middle of a sentence. This will help you get started the next day (and avoid seeing the blank screen)
Laurie is the head of a college at Yale. She lives and eats with the students in the dining hall.
- She built her class based upon hearing the complaints of students daily (they were unhappy)
Important behaviors:
- Gratitude
- Social connection
- Random acts of kindness
Students didn't realize their misconceptions about happiness
- It's not about your job, house, or money.
Happy people are:
1. Socially connected - They spend a lot of time with others. They prioritize connecting with others.
2. They don't focus on themselves - "Others oriented." They do more for others.
3. Grateful - They look for the good. They have a mindset of gratitude. They write down 3-5 things they are grateful for everyday. They are mindful.
The GI Fallacy - It's more than just knowing... "You must DO IT."
Be deliberate about connecting with others. Hang out with people you care about. Set up Skype calls with others.
Do NOT complain - It's awful.
Laurie's class has become the most popular class in the history of Yale...
- Her lectures have been filmed for the Today Show
- Created The Happiness Lab
- It's given more meaning to life
Advice for mid-level managers:
- Doctors find happier workers use less than 15 sick days a year
- Work with your employees to do what they're best at
- Find out what they're getting out of the job
- "Your emotions can be contagious. If you embody calm, they will be calm."
- Affective spirals - The leader can turn emotions positive
How to run excellent meetings:
- Infuse it with gratitude - Say what you're grateful for. Grateful team members are more productive.
- Regulate your emotion. Don't transmit negative energy to your team.
At home: Regulate emotion. Take time to pay attention to your emotion. What are you bringing home?
- Be present. Express gratitude to your family. Shift from complaining to being grateful.
- Say what you love about each other at your family dinner table
The best way to learn is to teach it.

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0:00.0	One thing that we know from science is that your emotions can be contagious.
0:05.0	You know, if you're a leader and you come in and you embody calm,
0:08.0	then you're going to contagiously affect your team such that they are calm.
0:12.0	If you embody panic at the recent numbers that came in,
0:15.2	they're going to feel that too.
0:16.8	And research suggests that emotional contagion
0:19.0	happens all through teams all the time,
0:21.6	but that folks who are team members are most susceptible
0:25.1	to the emotions of their leader.
0:28.7	Over the past nine months, I've been developing a new online learning tool called The Learning Leader Academy.
0:35.6	It's been carefully designed to help you become a more effective leader.
0:40.7	The content is a combination of what I've learned from the past five years
0:44.9	worth of conversations with more than 350 of the world's most effective leaders
0:49.9	as well as lessons learned from my own experience leading teams.
0:55.0	With that said, the content will not be the best part.
0:59.0	We are building an online community of learning leaders who will have access to the following.
1:06.0	The initial 30 lessons I sat side by side with my dad, my greatest mentor in my life and we spoke through 30 different
1:15.7	leadership topics in addition to seeing all of those videos you will receive a
1:20.8	playbook a manual to take what you've learned via the videos and put it into action.
1:26.7	Additionally, we'll have live calls on Zoom with me and other members of the Academy.
1:32.2	There will also be a private forum for members only
1:34.8	for you to discuss the challenges of your personal leadership journey with the
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