It's the 10% Happier Podcast, I'm your host, Dan Harris.

Hello everybody, how are we doing?

Here are some compelling data points from scientific research.

All moments of joy throughout your day can reset your body's stress response, make

you more productive, make you more cognitively flexible and creative, and improve your relationships.

TLDR joy is not a frivolous extra, it's a non-negotiable when it comes to human thriving.

But there are so many questions, of course, what is joy exactly, what's the difference

between joy and happiness, and how do you get joy?

My guest today comes with a ton of practical strategies for integrating joy into your daily

life.

Ingrid Fatel Lee is the author of Joyful, the surprising power of ordinary things, to create

extraordinary happiness.

She's the former design director at IDO and the founder of the website, The Aesthetics

of Joy.

She holds a Master's in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, and a Bachelor's in English

and Creative Writing from Princeton.

In this conversation, we talked about the physiological and psychological benefits of joy,

how to find joy in tangible objects and sensorial experiences, what she means by faux joy, how

joy can intersect with other seemingly unrelated emotions such as sadness and awe, how to change

your environment both at work and at home to infuse it with joy, a practice she calls

joy spotting, her list of the 50 ways to find more joy every day, the importance of

noticing your kill joys, the risks of being visibly joyful, which apparently has some

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