Happiness 101
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
... Well, technically it's Pysc 157.
This week Nerdette host Greta Johnsen speaks with the professor responsible for the most popular class in Yale University's 316-year history. Laurie Santos created a course called "Psychology and the Good Life” and about 1,200 students quickly enrolled in it.
Put simply, the course teaches students how they can be happier.
“The good news is that we can do it,” Santos tells Greta. “The bad news is that like all good things in life, it takes a lot of work.”
First, listen in as Santos gives us three main recommendations (1. Socialize; 2. Prioritize time over money; and 3. Remember you're too blessed to be stressed). Then, take the course yourself! It's free online via Coursera.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:13.6 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdat. |
| 0:19.8 | I am Greta Johnson and I am very happy to be with you on this glorious day, whatever day it may be that you are listening to this weird little podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Nernet is a show where we talk to your favorite or maybe even soon to be favorite people and I'm |
| 0:34.2 | very excited to tell you about our guest this week her name is Lori Santos and |
| 0:38.0 | she's a real fancy-pants professor over at Yale University and what's really cool about Lori is that she |
| 0:44.0 | actually managed to teach the most popular class in Yale's like 316 year |
| 0:50.2 | history. It was called Psychology and the Good Life. This is a super cool |
| 0:56.3 | class and it turns out it is relevant not only to like very stressed out anxious type |
| 1:01.4 | A Yale freshman but also like the entire world because we're |
| 1:06.2 | all very stressed out and sometimes it's helpful to have a really concise distillation of a |
| 1:11.6 | lot of different studies that tell us why we might be kind of anxious |
| 1:16.5 | and what could make us happier. So buckle your seatbelts, turn off your phones because it turns |
| 1:21.9 | out they make you miserable and listen to this |
| 1:24.4 | interview. Unbeknownst to me what ended up happening was that many many |
| 1:30.4 | many many Yale students wanted to take the class. |
| 1:32.6 | In fact, in the end, about one out of every four students at Yale |
| 1:36.6 | was trying to get into the class. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, how much did that popularity surprise you? |
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