Pushkin

We do just about everything we can to make things pleasing for our senses.

When we're relaxing at home, we might put on some comfy pajamas and cozy up under a warm blanket.

We paint our homes and colors we love and put our favorite pictures up on the wall.

We go out to restaurants with our friends or cook amazing meals at home.

We might even wear perfume or cologne so that a pleasant smell follows us wherever we go.

But while we curate for taste, touch, smell, and vision,

we often forget to do the same thing for the sounds we hear.

Yeah, we might dance around to our favorite songs,

but sound goes far beyond just music.

In fact, we can get rid of sounds that annoy us.

And we can surround ourselves with sounds that make us feel good.

And this is super important because studies show that sound has a huge impact on our health and our happiness.

It's a topic I wanted to explore on the Happiness Lab for a long time.

And now I found the perfect person to help me out.

I'm Dallas Taylor.

Dallas is the host of 20,000 Hearts,

a podcast that I've been working on for a long time.

And now I'm going to talk about the 20,000 Hearts,

a podcast that explores the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

Over the years, we've done tons of episodes about sound and how it relates to happiness.

We've talked about the benefits of ASMR.

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