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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Ask Us Anything! Laurie and Gretchen Take Your Questions (Live from Toronto)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when you enter "survival mode"? How can you become better at forging social connections? Can you be happy in a sad world? Happiness experts Dr Laurie Santos and Gretchen Rubin came together at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival to answer these and other questions from a live audience. 

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0:00.0

Hello, hello everyone, gather around.

0:03.5

Malcolm Gladwell here.

0:05.1

If you're a fan of my show, Revisionist History, then you know my deep and abiding obsession

0:10.0

with American higher education.

0:12.0

How it's broken, how it can be fixed.

0:15.2

Over our next couple of episodes, we dive into this topic again.

0:19.2

And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry.

0:23.6

And the other gives me hope.

0:27.7

Listen to Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.4

And you can always get our shows early and at-free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus.

0:38.5

Pushkin.

0:48.0

Pushkin.

0:57.7

Yes, thank you so much for coming out to the podcast.

1:02.9

If you've listened to the last few episodes of The Happiness Lab, you know that I've been

1:06.0

trying to get out of my tiny apartment podcast closet and into the real world so that I

1:10.2

can meet listeners just like you.

1:12.0

And to do that, I've been hosting a series of Happiness Lab live shows recorded in front

1:16.3

of live audiences.

1:17.3

Today's episode comes from the 30th anniversary Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.

1:23.2

At the event, I got to chat with someone you've met on the show before, best-selling author

1:27.2

and fellow podcaster Gretchen Rubin.

1:29.2

Hello.

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