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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Q: "Are We Born to Work? Or Born to Live?"

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Listener Niki Walker has a question... in our busy, career-driven, money-oriented live, are we forgetting to make time for more important things? 

In our first episode fielding questions from fans of The Happiness Lab, Dr Laurie Santos looks at the world of work and how we can prioritize purpose, fun and human interaction to make our daily lives better.   

Laurie is joined by Professor Cassie Holmes (author of "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time and Focus on What Matters Most). 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

And I think we maybe have a couple of minutes for questions I'm looking at Katie to see.

0:19.2

As a happiness expert, I give a lot of public talks on the science of well-being.

0:23.0

I've kind of lost track of exactly how many I've done, but at this point, it must be

0:27.7

in the hundreds.

0:28.7

At the end of every lecture, I usually try to leave at least a few minutes to take questions

0:33.0

from the audience.

0:34.0

Hello, you said you spent a lot of time with the students in the correlation of too much

0:39.2

alcohol use and nightlife, not enough sleep.

0:42.6

So what did you find there?

0:43.6

Yeah, so the question is about those Q&A sessions, they're my favorite part of speaking.

0:49.0

I can pretty much guarantee that someone will ask a question that'll make me stop and

0:53.2

think again about the challenges we all face to become happier.

0:56.7

We've been focusing on the younger generation, but a lot of surveys indicate that as you

1:01.9

get older, you get happier, are we?

1:04.0

And because I love these Q&A sessions so much, I've always thought it was a shame that

1:08.2

listeners to this podcast have to miss out on them.

1:11.4

And so I decided to change that.

1:13.6

I put out a request for any and all happiness lab listener questions on my Twitter and Instagram

1:18.5

feeds.

1:19.5

And immediately, I had a ton of great ones flooding in.

1:23.3

Questions like this one.

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