Listener Favorites: Exploring True Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
How many of you have had an amazing, epic, mountain top moment happen in your life — but deep down inside, the view from the top didn't make you feel quite as happy as you imagined? To be honest, we’ve all had that experience. But it doesn't have to be that way...
Today, Jessica spends time with Dr. Laurie Santos — a cognitive scientist and researcher of all things happiness. Together they'll unpack some of the baggage that leads us to ignore the sweeter moments in life and keeps us from being truly happy.
How many of you have had an amazing, epic, mountain top moment happen in your life — but deep down inside, the view from the top didn't make you feel quite as happy as you imagined? To be honest, we’ve all had that experience. But it doesn't have to be that way...
On our next episode on the Listeners Favorites Series, Jessica spends time with Dr. Laurie Santos — a cognitive scientist and researcher of all things happiness. Together they'll unpack some of the baggage that leads us to ignore the sweeter moments in life and keeps us from being truly happy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Jessica Hanager, founder of the World Changing brand, Noonday Collection. |
| 0:15.2 | We gather here for direct and honest conversations that help you live a life of courage by leaving |
| 0:20.8 | comfort and going scared. |
| 0:23.1 | And we are in the middle of our celebration of two million downloads. |
| 0:28.0 | To you, our Going Scared listeners. |
| 0:30.9 | To honor those two million downloads and to celebrate you, we are doing a listener favorites |
| 0:36.3 | countdown. |
| 0:37.3 | And today is number eight from the vault. |
| 0:40.1 | And for sure is one of my personal favorites, Dr. Laurie Santos. |
| 0:44.5 | She studies happiness and is the host of the super popular podcast, The Happiness Lab. |
| 0:52.3 | She will share her insights on the science of happiness, including some surprising research |
| 0:57.1 | findings about what actually makes us happy. |
| 1:01.3 | I have learned so much from her podcast. |
| 1:04.4 | And what I love about it is, yes, she was a professor at Yale. |
| 1:09.0 | She is a researcher. |
| 1:10.4 | She is a scientist, but she's super pragmatic and practical. |
| 1:15.2 | And just gives a lot of reminders about these very basic things like comparing ourselves |
| 1:22.2 | to others. |
| 1:25.0 | Being that will be happier if we could just get fill in the blank. |
| 1:29.2 | She really dispels so many myths that there are around happiness and it provides some |
| 1:33.8 | really pragmatic ways to honestly just learn contentment, because that's what I think |
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