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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

How to Make Friends and Compliment People

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Connecting with people is a sure-fire way to be happier - and you can quickly build relationships with friends and strangers alike just by giving them a sincere compliment.

In the first show of a season about how to be more sociable - we meet Troy Hawke, who makes a living complimenting everyone he passes on the street, and scientist Xuan Zhao - an expert on compliments who ditched her boyfriend for failing to say out loud all the nice things he thought about her.

(For more on Xuan's public benefit startup Flourish Science - a company aiming to "help people discover joy, combat burnout, and cultivate deeper connections within supportive communities" - then visit www.flouriship.com.)

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:13.6

Hello, this is Troy Hawke and congratulations on picking the Happiness Lab podcast.

0:19.6

You are clearly a connoisseur of the podcast art.

0:23.4

We're opening this new season of the Happiness Lab with a special salutation from the founder,

0:27.8

leading light and well sole member of the International Greeder's Guild.

0:31.8

We appreciate your custom ever so much. Never stop, never change.

0:35.8

There's an old maxim that if you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.

0:39.8

Troy Hawke lives by a related maxim that you can always, always say something nice.

0:44.8

You have a very confident stride.

0:46.8

Very confident stride. You loved it.

0:49.8

And Troy doesn't just say nice things to podcast listeners.

0:52.8

Madam, your hair looks divine. You look like a painting and you're just sitting there. It's fantastic.

0:56.8

He says nice things at every possible opportunity.

0:59.8

I adored the way you laughed at that picture.

1:01.8

Whenever, wherever, and to whom ever possible.

1:04.8

You have a marvelous weight distribution between your feet, sir.

1:07.8

He compliments strangers on the streets.

1:09.8

Clearly a man with an eye for detail.

1:10.8

In stores on cafes and outside football stadiums and tourist attractions.

1:14.8

Say you're an aqua marine blue jeans filled of dreams. Yes, you are.

1:18.8

Troy's mission is simple to meet people, to greet people,

1:21.8

and to tell everyone he meets the most kind, uplifting things possible.

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