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The Science of Happiness

Who Would You Be Without Them?

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Think of an important person in your life. Now imagine you never met. Our guest practices counting his blessings by picturing his life without a special person from his past.

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Several years ago my grandmother who I was very close to got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and the doctors told her she only had a few months to live.

0:56.0

And when this happened I flew home from LA to the Bay Area to Pittsburgh, California, where I'm from and I walked into the room and as soon as I walked

1:06.6

in the door she pulled me into her room, shut the door and she said I've been wanting to

1:11.5

talk to you about something for a long time, but now that I know I don't have a lot of time left,

1:16.0

I'm going to ask you now.

1:18.0

And I'm looking at her like, what are you even talking about?

1:21.0

And she said, if you were in my shoes

1:24.6

and you knew you were gonna die in two months,

1:28.4

what would you do?

1:30.7

And I'm looking at her like,

1:31.6

what are you talking about?

1:32.6

You're the one, but she said, just get quiet and listen,

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