Dr. Laurie Santos
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is bona fide award-winning scientist and one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant 10,” Dr. Laurie Santos. Dr. Laurie Santos joins Sophia on the podcast today to talk about how our memory doesn’t remember our resilience, making behavioral changes so that they’ll stick, the course she created and taught at Yale, her podcast The Happiness Lab, and so much more!
Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Rabbit Grin Productions
Associate Producers: Samantha Skelton & Mica Sangiacomo
Editor: Josh Windisch
Artwork by the Hoodzpah Sisters
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Sophia, welcome back to Work in Progress. |
| 0:15.1 | Today's episode is all about it, progress that is. Because today's guest is a bonafide award-winning |
| 0:23.4 | scientist and one of popular science magazines Brilliant 10, Dr. Laurie Santos. If you haven't |
| 0:30.9 | heard about her or listened to her TED talk about monkey economics, you should absolutely check it |
| 0:36.7 | out. We will link it in the stories for this week's episode. Pause the episode, honestly. Look it up, |
| 0:43.1 | you will not be disappointed. Because Dr. Santos is fascinating. She is a psychology professor at Yale |
| 0:50.0 | University who has created the most popular course in the university's 300-year history. |
| 0:57.2 | In addition to that, and her featured speaker status with TED, Dr. Santos has been featured |
| 1:03.5 | by just about every news platform and periodical you can think of from the New York Times to the |
| 1:08.3 | Today Show to Oprah Magazine. She is even a recipient of the Genius Award from the Liberty Science |
| 1:14.7 | Center. Her desire to educate has expanded to include the Happiness Lab. It's a podcast series |
| 1:20.5 | that she created to reevaluate the things we think will lead us to a happier life. And how wrong |
| 1:27.6 | we are about them a whole lot of the time. There is so much to learn from and about Dr. Santos and |
| 1:33.8 | I am going to try to cram as much as I can into the time that we have together so that we all can grow. Enjoy. |
| 1:55.2 | I am so excited and I have to say I've actually never done this with a guest. |
| 1:59.7 | We record your intro separately and we could just get to dive into conversation. But I actually |
| 2:06.3 | really want to begin our chat today with an explanation of your podcast, The Happiness Lab, |
| 2:14.6 | because I think it's going to be a great kickoff for people who are tuning into this episode going, |
| 2:20.0 | what is this professor going to tell me? Because when I read the description of your show, |
| 2:25.2 | I thought, yep, sign me up, I'm ready. And it reads so beautifully. It says, for everyone at home, |
| 2:32.8 | you might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life. More money, a better job, |
| 2:37.2 | or Instagram worthy vacations. You're dead wrong. Yale professor, Dr. Laurie Santos has studied |
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