Beat Your Isolation Loneliness
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Many of us are being advised to stay at home and avoid social contact to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Human interaction is a vital component of happiness, so Dr Laurie Santos asks Stanford's Professor Jamil Zaki to explain his research into how we can maintain meaningful links to our loved ones, friends and colleagues even if we can't be in the same room with them.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi everyone, Sophia Bush here and I am thrilled to tell you about the new original audio |
| 0:15.6 | book that I was lucky enough to narrate, called Wild and Precious, a celebration of Mary |
| 0:22.1 | Oliver. |
| 0:23.6 | This unique collection includes poems read by Oliver herself, in addition to readings |
| 0:28.5 | and personal recollections by artists and fans like Carmen Maria Machado, Rosque, |
| 0:34.5 | Susan Cain, Busy Phillips, Rain Wilson and me. |
| 0:38.6 | You can pre-order Wild and Precious at pushkin.fm or wherever audio books are sold. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to the first of some special episodes of The Happiness Lab. |
| 0:50.1 | You felt like the very news passed my long past day. |
| 0:53.2 | The now global spread of coronavirus is affecting all of us. |
| 0:55.8 | These are the safety stems with other people. |
| 0:58.9 | They at home. |
| 1:00.6 | This disease has brought a whole host of medical, economic and political problems, but it's |
| 1:04.9 | also given us a ton of uncertainty and anxiety, which are beginning to have an enormous |
| 1:08.8 | negative impact on our well-being. |
| 1:10.9 | But whenever I'm confused or fearful, I always remember that looking for answers in evidence-based |
| 1:15.8 | science is the best thing to do. |
| 1:18.2 | And that's why I'm hoping this podcast can help. |
| 1:26.8 | For those of you that haven't listened before, I'm Dr. Laurie Santos. |
| 1:32.8 | I'm a professor of psychology at Yale University, where I also live on campus with students. |
| 1:37.8 | In the past two weeks, university life as I know it has been totally upended. |
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