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The Happiness Lessons Helping Win Olympic Medals
Season 9 Episode 10
America's top athletes need coaches. And those coaches themselves need guidance. It's a hard and stressful job - and one where coaches can easily bec…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Happiness of the Long Distance Runner
Season 9 Episode 9
Georgia Bell was a great runner as a child - but in college she fell out of love with the sport. She hung up her running shoes - and they gathered du…
1 year, 9 months ago
How Talking to a Friend Helps (Live at The International Festival of Arts and Ideas)
Season 9 Episode 8
Making shows about her own happiness challenges was both fun and instructive for Dr Laurie, but it also took guts to be so vulnerable and open. She l…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Matter of Life and Death
Season 9 Episode 7
Dr Laurie HATES thinking about her own death. It's scary, creepy and morbid, right? Wrong. Thinking about our finite lives can makes us better, happi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Why Don't We Have a 15-hour Work Week?
Season 9 Episode 6
By 2030 we'll only work 15 hours a week, predicted the legendary economist John Maynard Keynes back in 1930. He thought advances in technology and we…
1 year, 9 months ago
Why We Sabotage Our Future Selves
Season 9 Episode 5
We often do things that will make our lives more stressful or difficult in the future, like overspending when we should save, eating junk food that m…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Power of Awe... and Where to Find it
Season 9 Episode 4
Awe reduces stress, helps us forget our minor worries and makes us feel more connected to the people around us. We all need more awe in our lives - b…
1 year, 10 months ago
How to Tame Stress
Season 9 Episode 3
Dr Laurie is stressed, and it's harming her health. Constant worry and stress is bad for our bodies and our minds, but how can we break the cycle and…
1 year, 10 months ago
How to Stop Avoiding Boredom and Embrace Doing Nothing
Season 9 Episode 2
Dr. Laurie used to dread boredom and would do anything—binge watch bad TV, take on extra work, snack endlessly—to avoid it. But boredom is actually a…
1 year, 10 months ago
How to Fight Perfectionism
Season 9 Episode 1
Holding yourself to impossibly high standards is self-defeating and makes for a miserable life. Can Dr Laurie Santos find ways to tackle her constant…
1 year, 10 months ago