How to Be Happy with Laurie Santos

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Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

World-renowned expert on the science of happiness, Dr. Laurie Santos (host of The Happiness Lab; professor of Yale University’s most popular class in history!) takes the time to answer YOUR most submitted questions on happiness this week. From sharing about the most misunderstood ideas on happiness (hello money!) and the most overlooked aspects of happiness, to whether single people can actually be as happy as married couples, to the fastest way to lift yourself up out of sadness (the answer might surprise you), this episode of Podcrushed will leave you armed with new insights to improve your happiness, in the short and long term.

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0:00.0	Lemonnader.
0:06.0	There's some work by Liz Dunn,
0:08.0	who's at the University of British Columbia,
0:09.4	where she does these studies where she hands people money on the street
0:12.2	and she tells them either,
0:13.4	hey, spend it on yourself and treat yourself.
0:15.4	Or hey, spend this on somebody else and do something nice for your community
0:18.8	or for someone else.
0:20.0	And she has people to predict which of these will make you happier.
0:22.3	And people overwhelmingly think spending on my and she has people to predict which of these will make you happier and people
0:23.0	overwhelmingly think spending on myself going to make me happier but then she
0:27.2	runs a study and she finds it's exactly the opposite right and so I think part of
0:31.2	the problem is that in some ways maybe capitalism was so successful because our intuitive theories of the human mind, in part informed by some of the stuff we were talking about, but I think just like our minds think that we'll be happier by investing in
0:44.5	ourselves and the data suggests it's really just the opposite.
0:49.8	Welcome to Podcrushed. We're your hosts I'm Penn. I'm Sophie and I'm Nava and I think we would have been your middle school besties.
0:57.1	Miserable. I'm seeking happiness.
1:00.0	Welcome to Pod crushed. Sophie's not here as you... We kicked her off the island finally.
1:06.0	Yeah, you know as you probably won't notice I think.
1:09.0	But only because you can't tell female voices apart so you know...
1:12.0	Exactly as you know,
1:13.7	Sophie was part of this episode.
1:15.7	Yeah, we miss Sophie, but Sophie is making herself happy today.
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