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The Happiness Lab's summer break is almost over.

After Labor Day, we'll be bringing you a new season with a back-to-school reading list

featuring some of my favorite psychology books of the year.

As usual, this new season will be packed with happiness tips that I'm sure you'll love.

And our list includes some of my personal heroes.

So get ready for your favorite podcast host to be nerding out of it.

But before all that, I want to share a conversation between two longtime friends at the Happiness Lab.

Today you'll get to hear a recent episode of the 10% Happier Podcast,

where the amazing Dan Harris interviews my former mentor, Professor Bruce Hood.

Bruce teaches the same happiness class I teach at Yale

to his own students at the University of Bristol in England. If you like the episode,

and really, why wouldn't you? Be sure to add 10% happier with Dan Harris to your podcast rotation.

Hey, hey, everybody, how we doing? Today, we're going to talk to one of the world's leading happiness experts about how to boost your levels of okayness and optimism while turning down the volume on distraction, egot centrism, self-consciousness, and toxic comparison. Pretty good recipe.

Bruce Hood has been the professor of developmental psychology in society at Bristol University since

1999. He got a PhD in neuroscience at Cambridge, followed by appointments at University College,

London, MIT, and a faculty professorship at Harvard.

He researches child development, origins of superstition, self-identity, and ownership.

For the past five years, however, he's really been concentrating on how to make his students happier.

As you'll hear him say here, he noticed a steep decline in happiness levels among

his students, which tracks with the overall data on this front. And so he's written a book,

I don't want to call it new, but it's his latest book, and it's called The Science of Happiness,

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