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I remember when I was in like junior high, maybe one summer, I was lucky enough that

my parents paid to belong to a pool that we could go to.

And so I swam on the team for that pool and I hung out there every day.

So at one point, I decided that I was going to swim laps every day, in addition to swim

team practice, and that I would add on a lap each day.

Anyways, I was up to swimming like over a mile every day.

And I would be like blurry-eyed when I came out, like literally a little bit physically

unstable when I came out of the pool every day, because I'd just been in there swimming

for so long.

And then I'd get on my bike and ride home.

My mother was getting madder and madder that I didn't come home earlier and earlier.

And I finally had to quit my goal because it made my mother mad.

Yeah, I'm a little too old now to put too much stock in that story, but there might have

been something to it.

I'm Dacker Keltner, welcome to the Science of Happiness.

Our guest today is not a champion swimmer, but she is an award-winning comedian who

performs stand-up at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

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