Happier Holidays: How to Celebrate No Matter What
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A lot of the festive events and traditions we look forward to each year will be very different in 2020. Gatherings might be smaller than we'd like... or cancelled altogether. Family tensions might be heightened too. But Dr Laurie Santos has gathered a group of top happiness experts to share their tips, tricks and science-backed strategies to make this holiday season as good as it can be.... and maybe even great.
Joining Laurie for this festive Zoom party are Jamil Zaki from Stanford University, Liz Dunn from the University of British Columbia and Nick Epley from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:12.0 | The 2020 holiday season is the strangest one I can remember. |
| 0:16.0 | Thanks to COVID-19, nearly all of the festive traditions that I share with my family and friends are cancelled. |
| 0:23.0 | The parties, the shopping trips, the dinners, they're all gone. |
| 0:26.0 | It really sucks, especially since I know these social interactions are vital ingredients to my happiness. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's why I decided to throw a little holiday Zoom party. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, happy holidays! |
| 0:38.0 | Happy holidays! |
| 0:39.0 | Partly to let me catch up with good friends from the world of psychology. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a holiday party, right? |
| 0:44.0 | It is a totally holiday. |
| 0:46.0 | But also to pick their brains for the latest scientific insights on how to have a happier holiday season. |
| 0:51.0 | And here was the guest list. Dr. Jamil Zaki from Stanford University. |
| 0:56.0 | Jamil, are you there? |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, I can hear you now. |
| 0:58.0 | Dr. Liz Dunn from the University of British Columbia. |
| 1:01.0 | Yes. |
| 1:02.0 | We try yelling at you guys. |
| 1:03.0 | Turn it up a little bit. |
| 1:05.0 | And Dr. Nick Eppley from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. |
| 1:08.0 | I start listening to the Christmas music and labor day. |
| 1:11.0 | So yeah, I'm that kind of guy. |
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