YGTG: From The Happiness Lab: The Secret to Making Friends as an Adult
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Here’s a special preview of the new season of The Happiness Lab for the YGTG for this month! You might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life… more money, a better job, or Instagram-worthy vacations. You’re dead wrong. Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better.
She’ll take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness. In the preview you’re about to hear, Laurie is joined by the US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to talk about a massive public health crisis that has touched nearly all of us at some time or another: loneliness. Loneliness is a far more common and far more serious problem than we think. If we're feeling lonely, what can we do? As you'll hear in this preview, we need to build out our social connections.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Dr. Margaret here. Today I'm sharing with you a preview from another podcast I love |
| 0:12.0 | and think you will too. It's called The Happiness Lab. |
| 0:15.7 | Their Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos shares evidence-based strategies to help you live |
| 0:20.3 | a more joyful life. Each episode she's joined by incredible guests and together they explore |
| 0:25.7 | the science of the mind to discover the best way to flex your friendship muscles, unravel |
| 0:30.4 | the mystery of why fear and pain can feel good, and examine that you only live once philosophy |
| 0:35.5 | and why it doesn't work, like you think. In the preview you're about to hear, Laurie |
| 0:39.8 | is joined by US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to talk about a massive public health crisis |
| 0:45.5 | that has touched nearly all of us at some time or another. He calls it the invisible epidemic |
| 0:50.5 | loneliness. So if you're feeling lonely what can you do and you know I like tangible suggestions |
| 0:57.1 | to learn about how to make friends as an adult and how to make meaningful connections |
| 1:00.8 | with the people around you, check out this preview as well as the full episode on The Happiness |
| 1:05.7 | Lab. |
| 1:12.7 | It's Miami in the 1980s inside a local elementary school and one of the students Vivek is feeling |
| 1:19.9 | out of place. He's new to the city, new to the country even, and he's experiencing |
| 1:25.2 | something that many of us are at least a little familiar with. Vivek is feeling lonely. |
| 1:31.6 | Experiencing loneliness had to very much do with shyness. I was actually not deeply |
| 1:35.6 | introverted, I wanted to spend time with other people, but I was really shy in a hundred |
| 1:39.4 | hour time making friends. |
| 1:41.3 | Young Vivek lived in the shadow of that loneliness. The school yard, his home room and lunch |
| 1:45.8 | tables may have been bustling, but no one seemed to stop to get to know the shy young boy |
| 1:50.3 | in their midst. Going to school each day was stressful and I was always worried about |
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