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The Wellness Scoop

Is Happy Ever After a Myth?

The Wellness Scoop

The Wellness Scoop

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.75.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Does our quest for a seemingly perfect life, a constant need to keep up with the Joneses and a series of unachievable expectations fuel our growing levels of unhappiness and anxiety? We’re looking at the social norms that surround marriage, children, careers, education, income and so much more with Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, looking at the research and the science behind the narratives.   Happy Ever After: Paul Dolan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi everyone and welcome to the delicious yellow podgurs with me, Ella Mills. I'm afraid

1:36.4

my co-host is missing an action yet again this week. Coronavirus is quite complicated one to deal with

1:43.2

at deliciously Ella HQ and so he is basically locked in the meeting room. So I get the pleasure of

1:48.5

getting out the meeting room for an hour and today we're talking about happy ever after and

1:54.2

basically whether that is a concept is effectively a myth. And I mean I think it's interesting to

2:00.0

think how many of us live with a sort of when-i mentality. You know we're waiting to achieve our

2:04.7

next goal, we're thinking we'll be happy when we get that promotion, finish it to Greek, get married,

2:09.7

but really how long does that happiness actually last and does it actually make us happy? And

2:14.4

I've always wondered if this quest for seemingly perfect life, something that fits with all the

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