The Formula for Happiness (with Dr. Laurie Santos)

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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What does it take to be happy? Dr. Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University, where she teaches “Psychology and the Good Life.” She’s also host of the podcast, “The Happiness Lab.” Dr. Santos joins Preet to discuss: The definition of happiness and how to maximize it The parenting paradox How job crafting can bring purpose to any career Self-care vs caring for others Practicing gratitude The health effects of loneliness and the importance of social connection The relationship between religion and happiness Why negative emotions are necessary Plus, Preet shares his new year’s resolutions, his favorite Stay Tuned episode of the year, and whether Liz Cheney will have to invoke the Speech or Debate clause. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/laurie-santos-happiness/ Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.
0:06.1	I'm Preet Bharara.
0:08.3	I think we, as lay people, kind of get happiness wrong, and I think that leads to lots of misconceptions.
0:14.4	I mean, I think we assume that happiness is about positive emotion all the time, right?
0:19.4	Often very high arousal, positive emotion, but it's not really what we're talking about.
0:28.1	That's Dr. Lori Santos.
0:30.3	She's the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and head of Silliman College
0:34.7	at Yale University.
0:36.5	She teaches psychology and the good life,
0:38.8	a course on finding happiness and fulfillment that quickly became the most popular class at Yale
0:43.3	in over 300 years. Dr. Santos also hosts the podcast, The Happiness Lab, and offers an online
0:49.8	version of a Yale course titled The Science of Well-Being. We discuss what happiness really means and how to achieve it, why negative emotions are crucial
0:58.0	to the equation, how job crafting can bring purpose to any career, the parenting paradox,
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