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How to Spend Your Time and Money Better (with Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler)
Season 10 Episode 37
We all behave irrationally. We pay for expensive gym memberships and only go once. We spend windfall cash on things we'd never buy with our salaries.…
7 months ago
Eat Like the People Who Live Happily to 100 (with Dan Buettner)
Season 10 Episode 36
Your eating habits could be cutting years off the end of your life. But there's a simple solution - eat like the people who live happily and healthil…
7 months, 1 week ago
Why Having the Courage to Defy Makes us Happier (with Dr Sunita Sah)
Season 10 Episode 35
We all go along with things we don't want to do... or worse, things that make us feel uncomfortable or morally uneasy. We comply for lots of reasons.…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Stop Caring What Other People Think of You (Bruce Hood on 10% Happier with Dan Harris)
Season 10 Episode 34
Bruce Hood was a mentor of Dr Laurie early in her academic career and now teaches a course on happiness based on her famous Yale class. Hear him disc…
8 months ago
“Can You Train Your Mind to Be Happier?” (with Dr Tal Ben-Shahar)
Season 10 Episode 33
How do you train your mind to be happier? That was the question posed to Dr Laurie by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar at a live webinar for his Happiness Studies A…
8 months, 1 week ago
"Human Minds Are Stupid!" (with Rich Roll)
Season 10 Episode 32
On his podcast, Rich Roll seeks to give his listeners the knowledge to unleash their best selves. He invited Dr Laurie on his show to explain the sci…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Joy of Not Being Dead (with Ryan Holiday on The Daily Stoic)
Season 10 Episode 31
Dr Laurie often uses the teachings of the ancient Stoic philosophers to help her through daily life - so she was invited on Ryan Holiday's hit show T…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Anyone Can Play, Anyone Can Win (Cornholing with Michelle Hastie Thompson)
Season 10 Episode 30
How do you put your life back together after your home and your neighborhood's been destroyed in a wildfire? By tossing beanbags at a hole? That's wh…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Jimi Hendrix of the Cello (with Joshua Roman)
Season 10 Episode 29
Joshua Roman has been playing the cello everyday since he was three - but then on a concert tour he caught Covid. The illness wouldn't go away and sa…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
"Birds Are Like My Afternoon Martini" (Birding with Lili Taylor)
Season 10 Episode 28
Lili Taylor loves her acting career - but the emotional intensity of her work and the constant travel can take its toll. But Lili has found a way to …
9 months, 4 weeks ago