Smell, Taste and Touch: How to Joyfully Awaken Your Senses
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin was warned that her eyesight was in peril. It shocked her into realising she'd taken all of her five senses for granted - and so she resolved to wring every ounce of joy from the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures around her.
Concluding her conversation with Dr Laurie Santos, Gretchen explains how to be more alive to smell, taste and touch - building on the ideas in her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Dr. Laurie Santos here. If you're a regular listener of my podcast The Happiness |
| 0:05.6 | Lab, you'll know the power that face-to-face interactions have to improve our mood and |
| 0:09.8 | our well-being. While this April, I plan to put that good advice into action, I'll be |
| 0:14.6 | taking to the stage for two live, happiness-lab events. I'll kick off each of these live events |
| 0:20.3 | by sharing the very latest science-backed happiness tips. You'll also get to sit in on a special |
| 0:25.2 | live recording of the podcast with some very exciting guests, and we'll all stick around |
| 0:29.4 | afterwards to answer your burning happiness questions. The first live event will be in |
| 0:33.6 | the Boston area on April 6th. I'll be heading to the arts at the Armory in Somerville, |
| 0:38.5 | where I'll be joined by Harvard Psychology Professor Jason Mitchell. Jason teaches Harvard's |
| 0:43.2 | famous Gen X class on the science of happiness. He'll be sharing his insights about how we can |
| 0:48.0 | take better care of our future selves, so we can maximize happiness not just in the present, |
| 0:52.8 | but for future us too. The second event will be at the sixth-ten-eye historic synagogue |
| 0:57.1 | in Washington, D.C. on April 20th. There, I'll be joined by David Yaden, author and professor |
| 1:03.1 | at the John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. David and I will |
| 1:07.6 | chat about the science of psychedelics and spiritual experience, and what role they can |
| 1:11.8 | play in improving our well-being. Tickets are on sale now. You can buy them at the venues |
| 1:17.2 | or just go to happinesslab.fm. I hope to see you soon at the Happiness Lab live with me, |
| 1:22.9 | Dr. Laurie Sanders. |
| 1:27.1 | Pushkin. |
| 1:34.1 | Hey, Happiness Lab listeners. If you like the episode you're about to hear and want to learn |
| 1:41.0 | more and happen to live near Toronto, you should come see me and Gretchen Rubin live in conversation |
| 1:46.8 | at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival showcase. It's on Sunday, May 7th, and you can get tickets |
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