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Here We Are

Myths of Happiness

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Shane talks with Sonja Lyubomirsky, who is a Professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. They discuss what we're learning about human well-being from this global quarantine experiment. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, thank you guys for joining fantastic episode today. This was recorded April 14th, just for a little bit of context, fantastic guest. This was before I've taken a few measures to make audio and everything a little bit better, but it should be let me know the audio should be pretty decent on your end but now episodes that are being recorded with new techniques are

0:29.9

going to sound that much more better learning the remote thing making all sorts of

0:35.3

changes well here we are dot com or here we are podcast dot com website is under

0:40.9

construction right now getting some help from some fans to redo it actually and

0:50.5

speaking of fans and bringing folks together, I really want to start some sort of here we Community, or something.

1:02.7

I don't know what yet.

1:04.3

I don't know if it's as simple as starting a discord.

1:07.9

I don't really know much about discord

1:09.7

or how simple it actually is, but it seems easy enough. I don't know if it would be a

1:14.2

Patreon only thing I really I love the idea of everyone being involved and I don't

1:20.3

so I don't know there's always incentive to these days to put stuff like that behind a

1:29.2

paywall and that always makes me a hair and nervous to do though I've been doing some pretty cool

1:34.4

stuff with patron of I'm starting to do Zoom calls with with patron supporters and stuff

1:40.6

but here's the point the reason I bring it up is and maybe you can give me

1:45.4

ideas but I want people to be able to talk about this stuff and you can go to

1:49.5

YouTube and leave comments on the episodes on the highlights.

1:57.0

You can share the highlights with friends,

1:59.3

that sort of thing.

2:00.4

But the big missing piece is you learn all this really cool stuff and then you don't have a lot of people don't have anyone to share it with to talk about it with especially now that people are quarantined, maybe it's even harder, or maybe it's easier

2:17.3

because we're doing things remotely, it's easier to connect and create the social circle you want. I don't know, but I think that, you know, when you get to hear a bunch of these cool ideas and learn something new, you'll integrate it a lot easier if you're able to share and talk about it more if you're able to say

2:38.7

Get in some chatboard and be like hey, just heard the new guest on the, here we are podcast.

2:46.4

I'm thinking about getting our book The How of Happiness or the Mist of Happiness and wondering if anyone wanted to do like a little book club or

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