Bringing Laughter Back with Yakov Smirnoff

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Yakov Smirnoff is a Soviet-born American comedian, actor and writer. After emigrating to the United States in 1977, Yakov began performing as a stand-up comic. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films and the television sitcom vehicle What a Country!. He has received a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology at UPenn and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Pepperdine University in Psychology. What you'll learn in this podcast: Why laughter really is the best medicine Warning signs your relationship may be in trouble Why laughter is essential to the well-being of a relationship

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0:00.0	Laughter is the best medicine, and the future doctor is in on this episode of Live Happy Now.
0:07.4	The ancient Greeks define happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.
0:14.0	To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the Internet, believe it or not.
0:22.1	The reality is that social connection is in the research the greatest predictor we have of long-term happiness.
0:29.9	You have some factors in your control.
0:32.8	They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.
0:38.8	And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves. There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.
0:45.8	We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.
0:49.9	Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place. This is Live Happy Now.
1:14.2	Hello and greetings and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston. Pleased, as always, to have you with us on this edition of the Live Happy Now podcast, wherever you are in the world. However, you may be listening, thanks for making us a part of your day. And thank you for more and more of you making Live Happy magazine a part of your day.
1:11.9	We've got a print edition. It comes out every couple of
1:16.1	months and it's available wherever fine magazines are sold. But we also have the digital edition,
1:20.7	which is available anywhere your phone goes or anywhere your tablet goes. It's available in the
1:25.5	Google Play Store and the Apple Store. And really,
1:28.0	there's no excuse for not getting it because it's got all kinds of great features,
1:32.9	things that you can learn, things that you can apply to your life and some fun stories in there.
1:36.8	So please, please, please grab the digital edition again, wherever you might be taking your
1:42.4	phone or tablet. I got to say, I was really excited when I saw today's guest on this schedule,
1:48.1	because I remember watching him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,
1:51.6	and then a few times on specials that aired on television, Yakov Smyrnov.
1:56.3	Of course, you may know him as the Russian comedian who always proclaimed that we lived in quite a country.
2:02.0	In fact, he exclaimed, what a country.
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