The Science of Well-Being with Laurie Santos

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dr. Laurie Santos joins the podcast to share what the science says about how we can maintain our well-being during this difficult time. About our Guest: Laurie is a Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Her course “Psychology and the Good Life” is the most popular class in the university’s history. It’s now available for free online as “The Science of Well-Being." She’s also the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale, which explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind Laurie hosts the critically acclaimed podcast The Happiness Lab. We couldn't recommend it more highly, if you like our podcast you should definitely give it a listen. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 2:00: Key resources for happiness during pandemic. 6:00: Understanding and combating logical errors. 10:00: How to stay strong during a crisis. 14:30: Developing an internal orientation toward positivity. 17:15: Key misconceptions about happiness. 20:30: Intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. 22:45: Self-compassion. 24:30: What can we learn from monkeys? 31:00: Why didn’t “errors of reasoning” evolve out of us? 34:15: Liking vs. Craving. 37:00: The critical role of lasting learning. 48:00: A message to your younger self. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Hardwire lasting change into your mind and heart in just a few minutes a day with Dr. Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	today we have the pleasure of
0:07.0	joined as usual by Dr Rick Hansen
0:09.0	and today we have the pleasure of welcoming a very special
0:12.0	guest to the podcast the professor of the Lori is a professor of psychology and head of
0:22.5	Syllaman College at Yale University.
0:24.3	She's also the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale
0:28.1	which explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind,
0:31.2	including what makes our minds unique by comparing the cognitive abilities of human and non-human primates.
0:37.0	Her fantastic TED Talk, a monkey economy as a rational as ours, is a great introduction to some of the material the Cognition Lab focuses on.
0:44.8	Speaking of Labs, Lori is also the host of the Happiness Lab, which is loosely based on her course at
0:49.2	Yale.
0:50.2	It's now available for free online as the Science of Well Being and almost 2 million people have taken it around the world which is an absolutely crazy number.
0:58.0	The Happiness Lab finished its first season last year and they're currently running a series of episodes dedicated to helping people
1:04.4	through the coronavirus crisis.
1:07.2	Before we get to Lori, I'd like to give you a quick reminder about our new Patreon account.
1:11.3	If you'd like to support the show you can go to
1:13.0	Patreon.com slash Being Well Podcast and for the cost of just a couple cups of
1:17.7	coffee a month you can support the show and receive a variety of great bonuses
1:21.8	in return.
1:23.0	If you're interested, I'll also include a link to it in the description of today's podcast.
1:27.0	Also if you've been enjoying the show, if you could take a moment to rate it, subscribe to it, tell a friend about it, you know, any of those little things, they really, really
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