Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Andrea Aswahay. And I'm Yasminammer. So mid-May marks two months

since we've been at home. I could have never ever ever imagined this would have

happened. Andrea, is there anything you're

particularly struggling with right now? Yeah, you know, honestly, I'm having a

really hard time being creative, you know, we write for a living and it's been getting really, really

hard to write these days and I think it's because we normally work in such a collaborative environment that really fuels my creativity.

So it's been tough, but you know I've been thinking a lot about these amazing writers who have worked in isolation and created, you know,

masterpieces. So I'm really channeling Emily Dickinson here trying to get some of those good

New England writing vibes.

I feel you.

I mean, I get my creative fuel from other people,

just random conversations, and you know,

those are not happening as much but there are strategies real concrete

strategies that we can adopt to cope with all the scary stuff out there and today

we've got just the person to guide us.

Dr. Lori Santos is a professor of psychology at Yale University,

and she's the host of the podcast, The Happiness Lab.

At Yale, Lori teaches a class called the Science of Well Being, and it's actually the largest

class in Yale's history.

The goal of the class is to do two separate things.

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