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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Psychopaths and Superheroes

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We talk a lot about psychopaths - but rarely discuss their polar opposites, super altruists. These are people who go to extreme lengths to help others - even though their acts of kindness might cost them time, money or expose them to physical danger. These folk are also happier than the rest of us.

A super altruist once saved the life of psychology professor Abigail Marsh - so she devoted her career to understanding what drives these amazing and happy people and how we call all learn to be more like them.

For an even deeper dive into the research we talk about in the show visit happinesslab.fm

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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:07.0

Hello, this is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, director, swimmer, and I love films.

0:14.0

Come join me on my podcast, Films To Be Barried With, where I invite a special guest over,

0:18.0

I tell them they've died, then they get them to discuss their life through the films that

0:22.0

meant the most to them. What films scared them the most? What made them cry the most?

0:26.0

At the end, they pick a film to go and they're puffkin and take to heaven.

0:29.0

Like, death, and movies.

0:31.0

Listen to Films To Be Barried With, with Brett Goldstein on Will Farrell's Big Money Players Network

0:35.0

on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.0

Hi, I'm Adam Gopnik, the staff writer at The New Yorker,

0:42.0

and my new book, The Real Work, investigates a foundational human question.

0:47.0

How do we learn and master a new skill?

0:50.0

Join me as I follow an artist, a dancer, a boxer,

0:54.0

and even a driving instructor in pursuit of mastering mastery.

0:58.0

You can pre-order the audiobook, The Real Work, now at Pushkin.fm,

1:03.0

or wherever audiobooks are sold.

1:06.0

I was driving home late at night after spending the night in Seattle,

1:10.0

and as I was coming over a bridge back into Tacoma,

1:14.0

a little dog around in front of my car, I did exactly what most people do when this happens,

1:19.0

and I now know you shouldn't do, which is I swore to try to avoid hitting it.

1:22.0

And the result of both swarming and then ultimately hitting it anyway,

1:27.0

was that my car was sent into sort of a fish tail and then a spin across the freeway.

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