Why Nostalgia Ain't So Rosy
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Actor Rob Lowe LOVES the 1980s. And who can blame him? He was one of the most famous men on the planet. But, as he tells Dr Laurie Santos, he's careful not to wallow in nostalgia for the music, fashions and events of his youth too much - and happiness science backs him up on this.
Research suggests that our memories of the past can be very selective and highly unreliable - causing us to misremember events and cast them in a rosy glow. Sadly, this also causes us to make very bad decisions about what will make us happy in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Okay. |
| 0:10.0 | Okay. |
| 0:15.0 | When you hear the word nostalgia, where do your thoughts go? |
| 0:29.0 | Oh boy, you know, it gets triggered, you know, usually by music or a smell. |
| 0:35.0 | Like hot air and pines, that combination. |
| 0:40.0 | And then if you throw in a little bit of salt water, reminds me of the very first time I ever saw California in 1976, |
| 0:49.0 | when I first set foot out here and started my journey to where I am today. So that really gets me nostalgic. |
| 0:55.0 | You're listening to one of the most surreal conversations of my life. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm talking about nostalgia with the actor who personifies some of my fondest 80s memories, Rob Lowe. |
| 1:06.0 | If you're a child of the 80s like me, Rob is an icon. |
| 1:10.0 | He was part of pretty much everything I'm embarrassed to love about that decade. |
| 1:14.0 | He was an ABC after school specials. |
| 1:16.0 | He starred in classic 80s movies like St. Elmo's Fire and The Outsiders. |
| 1:21.0 | He was a member of the infamous Brapp Pack. He was on the cover of Teen V Magazine week after week. |
| 1:27.0 | He dated all my teen girl idols from Demi Moore to Winona Ryder. |
| 1:31.0 | He played the saxophone. Or at least I thought he did. |
| 1:35.0 | Do you actually play the sax or was that just for the movie? |
| 1:38.0 | Let me tell you something. I am a longtime actor. I can fake do almost anything. |
| 1:44.0 | I can fake shoot a gun. I can fake repel. I can fake play the saxophone like no other. |
| 1:52.0 | And I have fooled many a person with it. |
| 1:55.0 | And let's not even get started on his hair. |
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