Speaker 1: Pushkin. So it's okay, it's fine, No, prepare your ears
Speaker 1: for the sounds of happiness. What you're hearing is pure joy.
Speaker 1: This high school student just learned she got into her
Speaker 1: dream college. This is I'm Laurie Santos. I'm a professor
Speaker 1: at that very dream college, Yale University, and sadly, I've
Speaker 1: seen that joyous moments like these don't last as long
Speaker 1: as my students think. Young people today are more stressed, anxious,
Speaker 1: and depressed than they've ever been, which is really tragic.
Speaker 1: But it's not just college students. Many of us are
Speaker 1: starting to feel like happiness is increased singly out of reach.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get started. So I decided to do
Speaker 1: something about it. I developed a class on the science
Speaker 1: of Happiness. Welcome everybody to Psychology and the Good Life.
Speaker 1: It was a runaway success. It became the most popular
Speaker 1: class ever at you. I'm a little bit surprised to
Speaker 1: see as many of you aren't here as our here,
Speaker 1: but that's great. Today, so many people turned up that
Speaker 1: I had to teach the course in a concert hall.
Speaker 1: You have the power to transform everything out there into happiness.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for your attention. I believe in you,
Speaker 1: and that's it. The class has changed my life and
Speaker 1: the lives of thousands of other people, and now I
Speaker 1: want to share these insights with you. So I teamed
Speaker 1: up with Pushkin Industries to make this new podcast called
Speaker 1: The Happiness Lab. I want to invite you on a journey,
Speaker 1: one in which will tackle a puzzling question, what really
Speaker 1: makes us happy? One guy had five hundred million dollars,
Speaker 1: but after working with these people, I understand money is
Speaker 1: not going to buy you happiness, so be careful what
Speaker 1: you wish for. To find the answer, we'll learn from
Speaker 1: some of the happiest people around. I've looked at the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly, but yeah, I'm blessed. I'll
Speaker 1: also introduce you to some of the top scientists and
Speaker 1: experts in my field. It turns out that when people
Speaker 1: get exactly what they want, they're not always happy. When
Speaker 1: they get the opposite of what they wanted, they often are.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit of a mystery. It's kind of
Speaker 1: mystery that attracts psychologists. You'll hear that getting to that
Speaker 1: happy place requires you to take a long, hard look
Speaker 1: at yourself. There was a woman in the workplace who
Speaker 1: will call her Megan, and she was a very negative person.
Speaker 1: We all have our Megans in the office, you know,
Speaker 1: for better or for worse. Yes, well, and you know what,
Speaker 1: We're all megans in some ways. We often think we
Speaker 1: know what will make us happy, but the science shows
Speaker 1: our minds don't always point us in the right direction.
Speaker 1: We long for fame and money, a beach body or
Speaker 1: a new car. We expect those things will make us happier.
Speaker 1: It's just that those expectations are flat out wrong. We
Speaker 1: find that time and time and time again. But we've
Speaker 1: found some truly inspirational people who get it right, people
Speaker 1: who put the science into practice. Would a gold medal
Speaker 1: make me happier? It's not the metals. It's hearing the
Speaker 1: crowd and hearing the ice when I skated it over
Speaker 1: so beautiful. This is why I do what I do.
Speaker 1: You're basically going to get an entire Ivy League class
Speaker 1: completely for free, and you'll have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: along the way. You hear a reaction that goes something
Speaker 1: like this, Oh, so, are you ready to feel better?
Speaker 1: Then join me for the Happiness Lab, launching on September seventeenth.
Speaker 1: Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts