The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
The Happiness Lab is serving up scientifically-backed takes this summer that are so hot, even your SPF 50 won’t protect you. With the help of behavioral scientists, historians, and cultural critics, Yale psychologist Dr. Laurie Santos challenges some of our biggest assumptions about what it takes to live a good life. Dr. Laurie explores topics like why we should forget about TMI and lean into oversharing, how dumping
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“Catherine Price is an award-winning journalist and the best-selling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and The Power of Fun”
“Catherine Price is an award-winning journalist and the best-selling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and The Power of Fun”
“is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia and the author of both Happy Money, The Science of Happier Spending”
“a new co-authored book, Leave the Lights On, How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species”
“this is something Charles Duhig talks a lot about in the power of habit”
“the poet Ross Gay, who wrote a whole book called The Book of Delights”
“I'm reminded of the journalist Catherine Price's book, How to Break Up With Your Phone, in which she lovingly argues that we don't need to break up with our phone, but we need to take it to sort of couple counseling”
“Professor David Yeager here, who has this lovely book called 10 to 25, where he argues that if you understand that your kids' main motivational goal between this period of age 10 to age 25 is to just like be as agent as they can”
“If you need a great prime on this, really recommend a book called Hope for Cynics by Jamil Zackey, a Stanford professor, where he talks about why we should have more hope than we think”
“Yeah, that was actually something Michael Delgado talks about and her book, Play with Your Cats. It's an amazing book”
“Two-time national bestselling author for his books Shift and Chatter”
“Nick and I had a chance to chat about the major takeaways from his incredible new book, A Little More Social”
“The Socrates Express. In search of life lessons from dead philosophers”
“certainly found Thoreau and his most famous book, Walden, a little bit annoying to be honest”
“Hi, I'm Chris Duffy. I'm a comedian and the author of Humor Me, a new book about how to laugh more every day”
“this poet Ross Gay, who wrote this book called The Book of Delights, where he decided that every day he would have to find one thing that was sort of delightful”
“On Monday's episode, I spoke with podcaster and author Eric Zimmer about his new book, How a Little Becomes a Lot, and how, in spite of our instincts”
“a practice that I learned from the author Ross Gay, who has this book called The Book of Delights”
“It's called the Book of Awesome and then he's got other books of awesome, but it's basically that thing”
“There's a book out there called The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield and he talks about this very idea too that creatives face this”
“Podcaster Eric Zimmer's new book is called How a Little Becomes a Lot. The Art of Small Changes for a More Meaningful Life”
“Next week we'll continue our back to school book series with comedian Chris Duffy. I'll ask him about some of my favorite takeaways from his new book, Humor Me”
“Well, Ritchie breaks all of this down in his incredible new book, Born to Flourish, which he co-authored with fellow neuroscientist Cortland Dahl”
“All ideas that he explores in his new book, How a Little Becomes a Lot”
“Is probably best known for her 2016 bestseller Grit, the power and passion of perseverance”
“Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese general who wrote down the principles of battle into the art of war said, you know, it's foolish to try to beat an enemy through brute strength”
“It's titled Situated. Find the people and places that bring out your best”
“a book called The Person and the Situation, a book I know you're familiar with. It was by Lee Ross and Dick Nisbitt”
“that I would read them stories from Frog and Toad. And frog and toad is I think the most psychologically wise children's series that there could ever be ... And they were written by the incomparable Arnold Lobel”
“Victor Frankel wrote Man Search for Meaning, of course, about his experience in the camps”
“an awesome new book called Big Time Off. The transformative power of sabbaticals and how to take one. It's by my good friend and colleague, DJ Dadonna”
“Bronny Ware, who is a palliative care nurse, talks about the five regrets of the dying”
“He's also an in-demand speaker and the author of Rejection Proof. How I beat fear and became invincible through one hundred days of rejection”
“Fay is the author of A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion”
“Story number one, the old school version of Solitude, is from Robinson Crusoe. The famous novel by Daniel Defoe”
“Emma is a writer, podcaster, and the author of a new book. A Creative Compass. Finding your way to a creative life”
“Yes. So this is from Julia Cameron. the author of The Artist Way and many other books”
“This is Dan Gilbert. He wrote one of my favorite books on human psychology. It's called stumbling on happiness”
“And I wrote a book about my life and my mother's life and my family's life and it became a New York Times bestseller”
“It's called Who Needs Friends, an unscientific examination of male friendship across America”
“He outlines his advice for how to do this in his excellent new book, A Little More Social. How small choices create unexpected happiness, health, and connection”
“And if you read the first page. Of the theory of moral sentiments. He says what you just said”
“she has this strategy that she uses. It's an acronym WWW, which stands for what for, why now, and what else, right? Why did I pick up my phone, what am I using it for? What else could I be doing? But the reason I like this WWW strategy is it's a moment to be mindful”
“Samuel Johnson, right, Doctor Johnson, the great English man of letters, in his dictionary of English language, defines pursuit as to follow in hostility”
“As Tocqueville put it in his famed double volume Democracy in America”
“It's called Big Feelings How to Be OK When Things Are Not Okay”
“I'm the author of The Power of Regret, How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”
“she wrote a bestselling book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying”
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