The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - Laurie Answers Your Happiness Questions - Coming July 11

Episode Date: July 4, 2022

What would you ask a wellbeing expert? Dr Laurie Santos is back with a special season of The Happiness Lab fielding listener questions about work, relationships and getting back out into the world after Covid. She'll be joined by fellow scientists and listeners explaining the stories behind their queries.   Begins July 11. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pushkin. Help me. I want to stop all this negative self-talk and finally learn to love myself. Maybe a question about how science can teach us to live happier and more enjoyable lives. My question is, are we born to work or are we born to live? In the next season of The Happiness Lab, I'll be fielding questions from listeners just like you. Megan, thank you so much for coming on The Happiness Lab. I never get to see the listeners, so it's really fun. It's super fun for me too. I'm like fangirling over here. I'll be diving into the real stories behind their questions. I sort of just like raised my head one day and I was like, what am I doing here? And asking a host of happiness experts to weigh in on topics from achieving work-life balance to becoming friendlier and how we can become more

comfortable in social situations. You know, I think Jean-Paul Sartre said that hell is other people. I think maybe hell is our imagination of what other people are. But here's the problem. We often interact not with the people who are really out there, but with the people in our minds. We'll also look at how we can rebuild our lives post-pandemic and discuss whether it's even okay to be happy when bad things are happening to people close to us and all around the world.

I didn't want to have happiness because I felt like I didn't deserve it when other people were suffering. I've absolutely loved reading through all of my listener messages, and I've learned a ton making this new series. I hope that you'll pick up some useful tips too. I don't get down on myself if I experience a negative thought because I realize this is how the human mind operates. And I have agency over how to manage that thought. So join me for the Happiness Lab's short season on Listener Questions Special Edition with me, Dr. Laurie Santos, starting July 11th.