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Next Question with Katie Couric

Bouncing Back with Laurie Santos

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

News, Health, Society & Culture, Commentary, Documentary,, Health & Fitness

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Happiness is not a destination. According to Dr. Laurie Santos – host of The Happiness Lab podcast, and professor of a popular class on happiness at Yale University – happiness is a journey that comes with many roadblocks. Whether you call it flourishing, contentment, or just plain joy, the key to finding it involves rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. With rates of anxiety and depression skyrocketing among young people, Dr. Santos sheds much-needed light on ways that we can adjust our own expectations about happiness, and offer constructive support to the people who need it most. She also clarifies the unexpected role that resilience plays along the path: the stronger we become, the more we’re capable of post-traumatic growth

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0:00.0

Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

0:07.0

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:11.0

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0:16.0

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

0:23.0

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0:30.0

It was a Hollywood movie come true and I was the star.

0:35.0

That's Damon Launer. In 2013 he founded what became known as the most elite sex club in the world.

0:42.0

Sankton. Join me, Carly Chortino, as we explore how this luxury sex empire was built

0:48.0

and how it ultimately turned Damon's life upside down.

0:52.0

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1:05.0

I'm Katie Curric and this is next question.

1:08.0

You know having a podcast on happiness teaching a whole class dive elite students generation after generation?

1:13.0

Yeah, I mean I think that we get happiness wrong.

1:16.0

Happiness, that feeling of joy or contentment that we all seem to crave, can also seem totally unattainable in this day and age.

1:26.0

In fact, maybe we need to replace the word happiness altogether.

1:31.0

True flourishing is taking on challenges embracing failure, you know, navigating these negative emotions that might be normative.

1:38.0

And so I think you know, it would be better to have a different word but in some ways we're stuck with happiness.

1:43.0

Dr. Laurie Santos is a cognitive scientist who's been studying happiness in the lab as well as through the class she teaches at Yale.

1:52.0

But she's the first to admit even she isn't happy all the time.

1:57.0

Some of us are kind of genetically lucky to have a little bit of a predisposition to happiness.

2:01.0

I'm probably the opposite. I think I was born on a rainy like cloudy mix kind of day.

2:07.0

So what do we need to understand about happiness?

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