Dr. Laurie Santos, Exploring True Happiness
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
How many of you have had an amazing, epic, mountain top moment happen in your life — but deep down inside, the view from the top didn't make you feel quite as happy as you imagined? To be honest, we’ve all had that experience. But it doesn't have to be that way...
Today, Jessica spends time with Dr. Laurie Santos — a cognitive scientist and researcher of all things happiness. Together they'll unpack some of the baggage that leads us to ignore the sweeter moments in life and keeps us from being truly happy.
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— Follow Laurie on Twitter and listen to her amazing podcast, The Happiness Lab.
— Head to Jessica Honegger's website for info on her book, transcripts of Going Scared episodes, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honeger, founder of the Social Impact Fashion |
| 0:06.8 | Brand Noon Day Collection. Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and |
| 0:15.8 | going scared. All right, how many of you watch the Summer Olympics? I love watching the Summer Olympics for one reason, gymnastics. So it's the |
| 0:28.5 | 2012 London Olympics. The stadium is filled with bands and the USA Gymnastics |
| 0:37.7 | champion Michaela Moroni is waiting to accept her Olympic medal. |
| 0:45.0 | Her name is called. |
| 0:47.0 | She steps up onto the podium, |
| 0:50.0 | and in that moment, |
| 0:52.0 | the camera captures her in a vulnerable moment with a giant scow on her face. |
| 1:00.0 | A scow! |
| 1:02.0 | In this moment of the greatest achievement in Michaela's career, she has a |
| 1:08.8 | disappointed scowl on her face because she is winning the silver medal. What is supposed to be an epic |
| 1:19.6 | moment in her |
| 1:25.0 | silver medal. All she can think about is how she missed the gold. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, as it turns out, Michaela's reaction is common and in fact research shows that |
| 1:35.2 | Olympians who win the bronze medal are actually happier than those that win the |
| 1:39.6 | silver. Why is that? This is a concept that I learned from our guest on today's show, Dr. |
| 1:48.0 | Lori Santos. Dr. Laboratory, Director of Yale's K-9 Cognition Lab, |
| 2:03.8 | and Head of Yale Residential College, |
| 2:06.2 | the Silaman College. |
| 2:07.9 | She is also the host of an epic podcast |
| 2:12.3 | that I would love for you to tune into after you listen to our conversation. |
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