Finding post-election happiness

1 big thing

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The pandemic, a historic election and all of 2020's other events have caused a huge amount of stress. That's why today, we're bringing you a special deep dive about the physiological affects of that prolonged anxiety - and the ways in which we can maintain a sense of normalcy during this abnormal time. Guests: Yale psychology professor and host of "The Happiness Lab" Dr. Laurie Santos. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Carol Wu, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Dan Bobkoff, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alex Sugiura and Naomi Shavin. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: The Happiness Lab Otis' Dream: The right to vote Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. I'm Naila Boodoo. It's Wednesday, November 11th, and it's Veterans Day.
0:39.0	And so I'd like to take a moment to thank all of our veterans and members of the armed forces for their service to the country.
0:45.4	Our broadcast team has the day off, but we have something special for you.
0:49.0	Last week during the election, I had a conversation with Dr. Lori Santos.
0:52.5	She's a cognitive scientist and psychology professor
0:55.0	at Yale University, and her course on happiness
0:57.6	is the school's most popular.
0:59.7	She also hosts the Happiness Lab podcast
1:01.8	from our partners at Pushkin Industries.
1:04.4	The context I talked to her about was last week's election, but let's be honest.
1:08.8	2020 has brought so much stress.
1:11.6	That's why we thought it would be good to take a moment to pause and why finding
1:15.1	happiness is today's one big thing. Good morning. Welcome. Thanks so much for having me. So this is such a crazy time. I'm really
1:29.1	looking forward to just sitting down with you and talking about all of this and I just want to start by asking how are you doing like how have you handled this week?
1:36.7	It has really been a week that I have to practice what I preach right you know I'm literally looking at the lists I give to my students of like okay meditating oh yeah
1:44.2	exercise right right and I've been really trying to get all those good habits in.
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