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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Laurie Has Fun... Part 2 ICYMI

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Am I a fun person? That was the question listener Natalie Robinson was asking herself. The answer was sobering. Natalie felt fun was being squeezed out of her busy life... but she found inspiration in the two episodes of The Happiness Lab dedicated to Dr Laurie Santos's own quest to regain the fun and playfulness of her youth. 

So here's another opportunity to listen to the concluding part of that story again.   

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0:00.0

I remember in your podcast you were saying like, I'm a fun person, but I don't really

0:16.1

have that much fun.

0:18.1

This is listener Natalie Robinson.

0:20.0

When the kids were little, it was so easy to have fun like you take them to the zoo,

0:23.6

take them to the water park.

0:25.3

She was inspired by an old episode of The Happiness Lab, in which I tried to inject fun

0:29.1

and playfulness back into my life.

0:31.6

Natalie also felt that she was lacking fun.

0:34.6

Are we fun?

0:35.6

Do we even have fun anymore?

0:37.3

Let's have more fun.

0:39.4

So she took the lessons she heard in the podcast and encouraged the women in her running

0:42.8

group to add fun interventions or fun interventions into their diaries.

0:47.6

Scavenger Hunt was definitely a lot of playfulness because we engaged with the public.

0:54.3

We had to.

0:55.3

I remember like one of them was like pretending you're a duck and you have to clock around

0:59.2

people.

1:00.2

That was the most playful.

1:02.4

In a recent show, we talked to Natalie and her friends about how their lives had been

1:05.6

improved by getting serious about having fun.

1:08.4

Go back and listen if you missed it.

1:10.1

We also played the first episode in our two part show that inspired them.

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