The Harms of Eating Alone: An International Day of Happiness Special from The Happiness Lab

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For the International Day of Happiness, we're sharing a special episode from The Happiness Lab. It's a chance to talk about happiness and what we can all do to be happier. March 20th also sees the release of the World Happiness Report. A big finding of 2025's report is that more of us are dining alone—and that's bad news.

The report's editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve shares the stark figures showing that shared meals are in decline, while Dr. Anne Fischel of The Family Dinner Project gives tips on how to dine better with friends, families and colleagues.

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0:49.4	Happy International Day of Happiness.
1:00.8	The world has been marking March 20th as a day dedicated to happiness for over a decade, part of a worldwide push to get governments to take happiness more seriously and to enact policies that improve our well-being.
1:04.9	International Day of Happiness also marks the release of the World Happiness Report.
1:09.6	And the Happiness Lab has been given early access to all the new research this report contains.
1:12.5	And over the next two episodes, we've got lots of highlights,
1:15.3	including things you can do right now to improve your life.
1:19.1	The most famous headline-grabbing part of each year's World Happiness Report are the country rankings.
1:20.6	People around the world are asked, on a scale of 1 to 10,
1:23.3	how satisfied are you with your life?
1:25.2	The crown for the happiest people usually goes to a country
1:28.0	somewhere in Scandinavia. And this year the happiest country is Finland. Finland. Again.
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