ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Psychologist Laurie Santos offered a course on well-being in 2018, and it became the most popular course ever offered at Yale University. Her online course also developed a strong following. Now she had a podcast called The Happiness Lab. I had a chance to talk with her about human happiness, and the ways in which our intuitions about what promotes happiness are often wrong. Our discussion includes a discussion of happiness in a time of a pandemic and of physical distancing, but also about happiness and race.

LINKS

Laurie Santos, Yale University

The Happiness Lab podcast

Jeff Simmermon's Why You Should Be Happy (on Apple Music)

Ashley Whillans, Harvard Business School

Sonja Lyubomirsky, UC-Riverside

Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All

Dan Ariely, "Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They Just Don't Realize It)" in The Atlantic

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, by Barry Schwartz

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, by Danielle Allen

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest, by Dan Buettner

The Enchiridion, by Epictetus

Special Guest: Laurie Santos.

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