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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

03/20/24 • 48 min

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

The Happiness Lab’s Dr. Laurie Santos brings together other Pushkin hosts to mark the International Day of Happiness. Revisionist History’s Malcolm Gladwell talks about the benefits of the misery of running in a Canadian winter. Dr. Maya Shankar from A Slight Change of Plans talks about quieting her mental chatter. And Cautionary Tales host Tim Harford surprises everyone with the happiness lessons to be learned from a colonoscopy.

Hear more of The Happiness Lab HERE.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Happiness Lab’s Dr. Laurie Santos brings together other Pushkin hosts to mark the International Day of Happiness. Revisionist History’s Malcolm Gladwell talks about the benefits of the misery of running in a Canadian winter. Dr. Maya Shankar from A Slight Change of Plans talks about quieting her mental chatter. And Cautionary Tales host Tim Harford surprises everyone with the happiness lessons to be learned from a colonoscopy.

Hear more of The Happiness Lab HERE.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

Transcript

Speaker 1

Pushkin. Hello, and if you're listening to this on March twentieth, Happy World Happiness Day. On the Happiness Lab, we suggest you do something to improve your well being every day of the year, but if the United Nations wants us all to make a special effort for twenty four hours in March, then we're on board with that too. The first International Day of Happiness was celebrated back in twenty thirteen. The goal was to raise awareness that our we

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