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The Science of Happiness

Why a Walk Works Wonders

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Do you dwell on the negative and let moments of joy just pass you by? Discover how the Academy Award-winning director of Inside Out got out of his head and savored the good in his life.

Link to Episode Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bury2hu9

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0:00.0

We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

0:05.0

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

0:11.0

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

0:13.4

NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our

0:19.4

tech and our bodies.

0:21.2

Listen in the Ted Radio Hour Feed wherever you get your podcasts.

0:25.8

For a good three years we went on a different track of Inside Out.

0:30.2

We had joy paired with fear.

0:32.0

I'm Joy. That's fear.

0:35.0

And we had found a lot of fun stuff.

0:37.0

We had, you know, the dream production, we had the subconscious,

0:41.0

we had all these cool set pieces and then we developed the film

0:45.9

and you're writing it up to the point where Joy now goes back and does something she

0:49.8

could have never done at the beginning of the film thanks to fear and it is what?

0:57.2

I had no idea and this was right at about the time when we had to go into production

1:01.2

so the pressure was on and I was sitting the weekend before going

1:06.5

we don't have a movie what are we gonna do I don't have a movie here

1:11.8

because I don't know what joy does at the end of the movie. I mean we have

1:14.3

a concept, we have characters and stuff, but what is the point, what's the statement of the film?

1:18.6

I remember walking around in the woods and just thinking I'm going to either

1:26.2

quit or get fired and I didn't know on so I literally just started thinking well let's see what would happen if I

1:35.3

quit I'd probably have to sell the house I might have to move and I really just let

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