A Better Way to Talk to Yourself
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Her husband has been in prison for 23 years. Our Happiness Guinea Pig tries a new approach to stay strong while working to get him released.
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| 0:00.0 | We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it? |
| 0:05.0 | I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing. |
| 0:11.0 | Ultimately, it's a culture change. |
| 0:13.4 | NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our |
| 0:19.4 | tech and our bodies. |
| 0:21.2 | Listen in the Ted Radio Hour feed wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.0 | When I first got into a relationship with Lewis, I kind of thought to myself, |
| 0:33.0 | this person doesn't seem like a person that has been imprisoned |
| 0:38.0 | for as long as he has. |
| 0:40.0 | He had such a balance to his personality, to the way that he carried himself. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm like, what is going on with this person? |
| 0:50.0 | We saw each other for two years. |
| 0:53.0 | Initially, I kind of kept them at arm's length because I figured that this isn't what my life is supposed to be. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, I'm supposed to find someone in the world, you know, living outside of the walls and |
| 1:06.8 | meet and Mary fall in love. You know, everything on the outside. |
| 1:10.4 | Never considered someone behind prison walls and then I had to ask myself after I took a couple of steps back. |
| 1:17.0 | What makes this person any different from any other aside from his history, which was major, but aside from that he had come such a long way that I could not and would not discount his friendship. |
| 1:32.0 | And that's where it started. We did a lot of laughing. |
| 1:36.0 | We discovered we had a lot in common. Some of the ideas I should say that his parents had |
| 1:42.2 | as far as bringing them up but then you know it has a real |
| 1:46.1 | hard line and stopping because you see the different paths that our lives took. |
| 1:51.6 | When you run across somebody who is as genuine and caring and loving |
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