There is so much real, actionable, well-studied, hopeful, positive, healthy stuff here.
I am going to listen a second time because Dr. Santos has given me a lot to think about. I’ve cued the video to start at the beginning of her interview.
Dr. Laurie Santos, Yale University’s “Happiness Professor,” joins Offline to lay out a scientific guide to finding happiness. On her podcast The Happiness Lab and in her course Psychology and the Good Life (the most popular in Yale’s 300 year history), Laurie educates people on the way our brains lie about what makes us happy and helps them reorient their priorities to find genuine happiness. She sits down with Jon to talk about the root causes of declining happiness among young people, why in-person interaction is a crucial part of being human, and why putting others before ourselves makes us happier than fulfilling what we think we want.
