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Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey, this is doctor Laurie Sanders. You've reached the

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Speaker 1: Happiness Lab podcast hotline. Is there anything you've always wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask a happiness expert? Hey, Happiness Lab help me.

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Speaker 1: I want to stop all this negative self talk and

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Speaker 1: finally learned to love myself. Maybe a question about how

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Speaker 1: science can teach us to live happier and more enjoyable lives.

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Speaker 1: My question is are we born to work or are

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Speaker 1: we born to live? In the next season of the

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Speaker 1: Happiness Lab, I'll be feeling questions from listeners just like you, Megan,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the Happiness Lab

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Speaker 1: and urgancy of listeners. It's really fun. It's super fun

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Speaker 1: for me too. I'm like fan girling over here. I'll

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Speaker 1: be diving into the real stories behind their questions. I

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Speaker 1: sort of just raised my head one day and I

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Speaker 1: was like, what am I doing here and asking a

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Speaker 1: host of happiness experts to weigh in on topics from

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Speaker 1: achieving work life balance to becoming friendlier and how we

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Speaker 1: can become more comfortable in social situations. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: Jean Paul Sartre said that hell is other people. I

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Speaker 1: think maybe hell is our imagination of what other people are.

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Speaker 1: But here's the problem. We often interact not with the

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Speaker 1: people who are really out there, but with the people

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Speaker 1: in our minds. We'll also look at how we can

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Speaker 1: rebuild our lives post pandemic, and discuss whether it's even

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Speaker 1: okay to be happy when bad things are happening to

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Speaker 1: people close to us and all around the world. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to have happiness, guys. I felt like I

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Speaker 1: didn't deserve that when other people were suffering. I've absolutely

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Speaker 1: loved reading through all of my listener messages, and I've

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Speaker 1: learned a ton making this new series. I hope that

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Speaker 1: you'll pick up some useful tips too. I don't get

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Speaker 1: down on myself if I experience a negative thought, because

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Speaker 1: I realize this is how the human mind operates, and

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Speaker 1: I have agency over how to manage that thought. So

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Speaker 1: join me for The Happiness Lab's short season on Listener

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Speaker 1: Questions special Edition with me doctor law Ari Santos, starting

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Speaker 1: July eleventh,