GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Stop Being Such Grumpy Nightmares? with Dr. Laurie Santos

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Queen, did you know that there was a literal doctor teaching a class on happiness at literally Yale?! Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale University and the host of The Happiness Lab podcast, gives Jonathan a redux version of her iconic Yale course about the science of happiness and shares tips for boosting our spirits even when we're not near the people and places that usually bring us joy. It's time to get in touch with our vagus nerves! Follow Dr. Laurie Santos on Twitter @lauriesantos, and check out her podcast The Happiness Lab. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venice and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by the host of the Happiness Lab Podcast and Professor of Psychology
0:14.8	at Yale University, Dr. Lorry Santos, where I ask her.
0:18.8	How can we become less of grumpy nightmares.
0:25.0	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Vanes. I'm so excited to introduce this week's guest Dr.
0:28.0	Lori Santos.
0:29.0	Lori, welcome!
0:30.9	Thanks so much for having me on the show.
0:33.0	Is it okay if I call you Lori?
0:34.3	Yes, of course, of course.
0:35.8	Okay, so I think you probably have one of the most interesting jobs ever.
0:42.1	You are a professor at Yale and you teach a course on happiness. How to be
0:50.4	happy? The science of happiness. The science of happiness the science of happiness honey I'm very curious about this it's like how
0:59.4	the wider question is you're the perfect person to answer it is can we train our
1:04.2	brains to be happier? Yes the answer is definitely yes that's what the science
1:08.2	suggests I think this is super important because sometimes we think that
1:11.2	happiness is just built in, right?
1:13.2	Like you're just genetically going to be an optimistic person or not and that's all there is.
1:17.2	Or we think that happiness is about our circumstances, right?
1:20.2	Like you need to become rich and famous and you know get a yacht and then you'll be happy
1:24.0	but otherwise you know you're just out of luck but what the data suggests is that we can
1:28.6	control a lot of our happiness through our mindsets and through our behaviors. So what are, when you say the data suggests,
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