Why You Shouldn't Hate Small Talk
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Many of us avoid chatting with strangers – isn't small talk tedious and dull? Listen as our happiness guinea pig discovers its surprising benefits.
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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. |
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| 0:25.0 | If you enjoy the science of happiness, leave us a rating and a comment with your thoughts. |
| 0:29.0 | It really helps us get it out there, so others can listen to it too. |
| 0:36.0 | My dad worked at the oil refinery |
| 0:42.0 | and he would come home all dirty, like sit all over his face and he's like still |
| 0:46.6 | play baseball or he'd take me fishing like right after work just throw his work clothes off and |
| 0:51.2 | so it was pretty good growing up in Mississippi. Even on |
| 0:55.4 | school nights we'd go in the middle of the night and go out and go digging. |
| 0:59.1 | Anything old that's kind of hidden in the ground that people haven't seen in hundreds of years or |
| 1:04.6 | I've never seen it all. |
| 1:05.9 | It's like digging for treasure. |
| 1:08.5 | We found old tent hooks, arrowheads and pottery. |
| 1:18.0 | 2005 I joined the Marines, so that's why I came out of California. I saw on the internet where people were digging fossils, |
| 1:22.0 | I went straight to them started digging. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah a lot of a sea fossils, sharks teeth. |
| 1:29.2 | That's pretty exciting. It's like finding a big wad of cash or something. |
| 1:35.0 | I lived up at the Ocean View mine. |
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