62. The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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1. One easy thing we can do to increase our happiness by 1% when we’re feeling tired and overwhelmed. 2. Our misconception that happiness is about our circumstances–the next promotion, the new relationship–and the reality that often people with fantastic circumstances are miserable. 3. Why our emotions flow directly from our thoughts–and how we can improve our wellbeing by changing our mind’s interpretation of events. About Laurie: Dr. Laurie Santos is Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Dr. Santos is an expert on human cognition and the cognitive biases that impede better choices. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” teaches students what the science of psychology says about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. The class is Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years and has been adapted into a free Coursera program that has been taken by over 3.3 million people to date. Dr. Santos has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NPR, GQ Magazine, Slate, CNN and O, The Oprah Magazine. Dr. Santos is a winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching from institutions such as Yale and the American Psychological Association. She has been featured as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named TIME's “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, launched in 2019 has over 48 million downloads. Instagram: @lauriesantosofficial Twitter: @lauriesantos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And because I'm mine, I walk the line.
0:10.6	You came back.
0:12.1	You came back again to we can do our things.
0:15.1	It's a freaking miracle, I tell you.
0:18.4	Thank you.
0:19.4	All right.
0:20.4	So I am very curious about what the hell is going to unfold in this episode.
0:26.1	And that is because today, we are talking about happiness.
0:33.1	And I have a very complicated relationship with happiness.
0:37.1	I'm honestly kind of against it, okay?
0:41.6	I just for so long have resented the fact that we seem to have some kind of unwritten
0:47.2	cultural happiness mandate that it's just like accepted that all women must be happy
0:53.8	all the time.
0:55.1	Because of that, it feels to me when I'm out in the world that the world is just
1:02.8	teaming with happiness bullies, like happiness gatekeepers, and I stand against
1:08.8	them.
1:09.8	Okay, I stand against them wherever they are, but I might suggest that many of them
1:14.1	are the airport for some reason, insisting that women, they do not know smile at
1:19.6	them for no reason, okay?
1:23.6	But honestly, they're everywhere, and I guess we're all happiness bullies to some extent
1:27.3	starts when we're born.
1:28.7	Every time a child expresses something other than happiness, we cannot take it.
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