Pushkin

Did you ever hear of a Happiness Hack or Well-Being strategy on this show and think,

gee, I wish I learned that one years ago.

It's certainly never too late to discover the lessons that the science of Happiness has to offer.

I know from your emails that some of you listening right now are in your 6th, 7th, and even 8th

decades, and that you still feel that you learn a ton from what we talk about on the Happiness

Lab.

But there's also a growing movement arguing that it's never too early to start mastering

these Happiness hacks.

The very things that science shows can make grown adults flourish, practices like mindfulness,

gratitude, or being sociable and other-oriented.

All of these are habits that can boost well-being in younger minds, too.

And that's the reason that I got started teaching Happiness in the first place.

The students who take my science of well-being class are incredibly smart, but also surprisingly

anxious and unhappy young adults.

I think my class helps, but I wish that my students could have learned all the strategies

I teach long before they entered college.

That's why I recently launched a free course for adolescents called the Science of Well-Being

for teens, which you can find on YouTube or on Coursera.org.

But we shouldn't just begin taking care of our emotional health in middle school either.

We should be getting this knowledge to kids even earlier.

So how can we get children to start investing in their happiness as soon as they start learning

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