How to Handle Change
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Change is the only certainty in life. We may desperately want to change ourselves and our surroundings, or we may fear the disruption and distress some changes bring. Dr Laurie Santos talks to change expert Dr Maya Shankar (host of A Slight Change of Plans) about how we can put change in perspective and learn to fear it less; and also how we can bring about far greater changes in ourselves than we ever thought possible.
Laurie and Maya also take a few listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:12.5 | One of my favorite parts of hosting this podcast is getting so many of your questions about |
| 0:16.4 | how to stay happy. |
| 0:17.9 | And one of the kinds of questions I keep getting over and over again, especially right now, |
| 0:22.5 | is about happiness and change. |
| 0:24.6 | Things like how can we make changes that actually stick? |
| 0:27.9 | Or how can we stay happy through hard life changes that come our way? |
| 0:31.4 | Or how can we deal with the collective happiness changes that are happening in this transformative |
| 0:35.4 | time that we're all going through in the midst of this pandemic? |
| 0:38.6 | And so with all these questions, I thought it would be best if I called in an expert |
| 0:42.0 | on change for this special bonus episode. |
| 0:44.3 | And so I'm super excited to welcome back Behavior Change Expert Extraordinaire, host |
| 0:48.6 | of one of my favorite new podcasts, The Slight Change of Plans, and my former student, |
| 0:53.0 | Maya Shankar. |
| 0:54.0 | It's so much fun to be here, Larry. |
| 0:56.0 | Great to see you. |
| 0:58.6 | So you were back on the Happiness Lab a bit ago before. |
| 1:02.0 | And the last time you were here on the Happiness Lab, we talked briefly about how you got |
| 1:05.2 | interested in the psychology of change. |
| 1:07.5 | And so I wonder if you'd quickly share that story again for me. |
| 1:11.1 | I think it'll help listeners really understand how you got interested in the kind of like |
| 1:15.2 | studying behavior change and how it's really affected you personally. |
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