63. How to Live a Little Happier 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

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

1. The simple exercises Laurie conducts with her students at Yale to help them reset their brains and restructure their days in order to access happiness. 2. Why being “time famished” is one of the most common obstacles to happiness, the signals our bodies give us that we are starved of unstructured time, and what we can do to build more of it. 3. How understanding that our brains are wired as “comparison machines” incompatible with happiness can lead to improved wellbeing. 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	Well, hello Pod Squad. Thanks for coming back to we can do hard things. How come you always
0:15.2	get to do the beginning part? Okay. Actually, everybody Pod Squad stay where you are.
0:19.6	Yeah. Don't move. Go ahead, babe. It feels a little bit like one-sided here. Hello, Pod Squad.
0:25.3	Hello. Play me your space, Abby. Play me that space. Take it up, bro.
0:28.7	Two sister. I just want to welcome you back. Here we are. We can do hard things podcast.
0:35.8	We've been talking to Dr. Laurie Santos. We love her so much. And I feel like I am killing
0:44.4	this intro. Do you know why? I bet you're killing it. Pod Squad is going to be very excited about
0:51.1	this. We're talking to Dr. Laurie Santos about happiness. And so we have some happy news for you.
0:56.3	What's the happy news? Abby is out of the closet. Look at she's out of the closet. She is
1:03.4	recording now in a room. We are in a room, Pod Squad. And you are out of the bathroom, honey.
1:08.2	I know, but here's the deal. The Pod Squad has been so overtly concerned with you being in the
1:12.7	closet. But nobody is worried about me being in a basement bathroom. Well, they didn't know that.
1:20.5	What they don't know is that my microphone this entire time and computer has been sitting on the
1:24.6	toilet. And I have been in a room that is like eight inches by 10 inches. But I think there's
1:33.3	some kind of cognitive dissonance that people have to see Abby Wombach speaking her bold truths
1:41.2	in the closet makes people listen for sure. It's ironic. Yeah.
1:46.0	As a Lannis Morset would probably say it's ironic. But but what the Pod Squad should also know is
1:52.1	that we have a very emotional relationship with closets. Like I have always done my best creative
2:00.0	work in closets. I wrote all of love warrior from a closet. Okay. Then I Abby and I got a house
2:07.8	and I got an actual office. And so I sat down in the office to write untamed. And I could not do it
2:14.8	because the office was too big. And there were too many distractions. And we know I'm like
2:19.3	Dory from Nemo whenever there's any I just and writing is so terrible and horrible that I would
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