This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey, everybody. Today we've got a special episode where my friend, Dr. Lori Santos, interviews me about stress, sleep, and sanity at work.

We talk about how I've tried and often failed to be a halfway decent boss, what I learned about insomnia during some rough years in my career, and why I have come to see psychological safety

as perhaps the single most underrated management skill on the planet.

This conversation gets both personal and very practical, and I should tell you that it first

appeared on Lori's podcast, which is called The Happiness Lab with Dr. Lori Santos.

You may know Lori.

She's a Yale professor who teaches one of the most popular courses in the school's history on the science of happiness and well-being.

She's also very good at turning psychological research into stuff that you can actually use in your messy life. If you enjoy this conversation, which I hope you do, you should subscribe to Laurie's show. It's great, and so is she. And I can say this from personal experience, having spent a bunch of time with her. One last thing before we dive in here, don't forget to check out what we're doing over on Dan Harris.com. Subscribers get to come to our weekly

live meditation and Q&A sessions every Tuesday at four. I'll be doing the next one on November

25th with our teacher of the month, Cristiana Wolf. We'll play in my conversation with

Lori Santos from The Happiness Lab with Dr. Lori Santos, right after this.

This special episode of the Happiness Lab is brought to you by State Farm.

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

If you have a job, it's entirely possible that you spend more waking hours at work than doing anything else in your life.

More time than you spend with your family or enjoying your hobbies or kicking back and relaxing.

Work is a big part of our lives. But aside from just paying the bills, our job can give us purpose, fulfillment, and a sense of belonging.

One survey by the American Psychological Association found that 92% of us think that our workplaces should actively support our emotional

well-being. But that same survey found that one in five of us describe our workplace as being toxic.

And what makes a job toxic? According to that survey, it was things like bullying, overwork,

discrimination, and even loneliness. It's therefore no surprise that this year's World Mental

Health Day was devoted to the idea of wellness in the workplace. And so in the last of our special

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