Pushkin.

Hello and welcome to house calls.

I'm Vivekmorty and I have the honor of serving as U.S. Surgeon General.

I'd like to introduce you to Dr. Lorry Santos, professor at Yale University and the

creator of the revolutionary class, psychology and the good life, better

known as the happiness class.

Today we'll be talking about happiness in the context of the mental health crisis among

youth.

This episode includes lessons on stress, burnout, and the practice of happiness.

Hi Lori, welcome to the podcast.

Hey, thanks so much for having me on the show.

I have so much that I want to talk to you about today, but I first just want to ask just about

your personal story, which is I find so fascinating that you went from working on non-human primates to becoming an expert on

unhappiness and I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about how that

happened. Yeah it's a kind of strange path. And so, you know, I've been an academic psychologist

for a very, very embarrassingly long time.

Most of the time I was really interested

in this question of what makes humans unique,

what makes us special?

What are some of the ways that we make sense of the world

that no other creature does? And I studied that question using monkeys using

non-human primates. But it was around this time like you know about 10 years

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