Laurie Santos, PhD
The Science of Happiness
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What You'll Learn
Better understand common misconceptions about happiness, why our minds think in unhelpful ways even though they make us unhappy, and the research that can help us change
Learn 5 simple “hacks” that you can do to decrease stress, improve well-being, and connect more fully with those around you
Discover why research on “emotion contagion” suggests that cultivating your own deep happiness may be one of the most powerful ways to serve the happiness of those you love
About Laurie Santos, PhD
To learn more about Dr. Santos and enroll in her free Science of Well-Being course you can visit her website.
About Daniel Goleman, PhD
You can learn more about Dr. Goleman's work on his website.
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Great dialog. Lots of pearls to take away. I will have my supine yoga students place a rubber duck on their belly and breath!!
Thank you Laurie. I really enjoyed your presentation and interaction with Daniel. It struck me that much that I have been teaching at our Business School in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is aligned to how you go about teaching on the topic of well-being and “putting on your own oxygen mask.” I was wondering if there would be value in forming some sort of global network on teaching happiness. We could leverage a lot of positive change in society. What do you think?
***** Thank you Laurie and Daniel for preparing and delivering this talk! *****
Outstanding conversation, easily the most natural talk/interview I’ve seen on this type of summit.
Immediately useful well-being and happiness tips. Insightful discussion on the interaction of cultural norms with these tips.
Thanks for the hugs. 🙂
Looking at your smiling while you here talking, gave me lots of happiness already! Thank you, you made my day!
Wonderful and insightful thank you both
Thank you. Very inspiring and many practical suggestions. Reminds me of the quote “Find the good and praise it” both for ourselves and for others.
thank you for this great summit. Well, put together with so much inspiring content. Thank you very much.
It was great! Thank you , both.
Thank you Laurie…I took your Science of Happiness course last year and it was a life changer. When I find people in struggles, it is my go-to suggestion! Namaste
Thank you so much Laurie and Daniel.
So uplifting.
Feel happier just listening to you both!
Thank you to LAURIE A KIND AND GENTLE WOMAN her sweetness is contagious no wondet she can teach the secret of HAPPINESS….her face is just an open heart….
Thank you Laurie and Dan an excellent conversation. As a MAPP graduate I love to hear all these hacks and have ideas reinforced from my previous studies.
I think I am having to listen to most seminars more than once to understand fully and to get most benefit in order to implement in my day to day life. So I think I’d appreciate having the access longer than 48 hrs
Hi, how could it be possible to hear the seminars in Spanish?
Hi Evelyn,
Spanish subtitles are available for all of the recording. Click on the “CC” button on the bottom right of the video and select Spanish. Hope this helps.
Can there be to much happiness?
Thanks a practical conversation to increase daily well being.
Nice convo across various psych topics. For the record, it was recently disproven that there is a wealth point for happiness … happiness does keep increasing above $75k as observed by Matthew Killingsworth and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this year.
Thank you , for delivering a lecture on happiness and the experiences which you have share it will be of great help to the people during the pandemic.
Thank you! I am going to write letters to my daugthers and husband and tell them how much I love them and how much they mean to me. The times are hard and I am sick in covid at this moment. But everything is going to be ok!❤
Love from Sweden.
Laurie’s class via Coursera was the BEST thing to come out of the pandemic for me ! My daughter who is studying psychology in Toulouse, France suggested it to me. Having the time to follow this class was a gift, a long lasting gift. I learned so much and it was such a positive support during that time. Nearly one year later, I continue to be grateful and put into practice what I learned. Even my 7 yr old continues to enjoy stating 3 good things she is grateful for every night before bed. AND we both have the same #1, the present moment of being together, sharing that moment, we laugh about it every night! Eckhart Tolle (I had time to read too!) and Laurie Santos have changed my life. Thank you. My letter of gratitude is to you Laurie 🙂
Hola from Málaga, Spain I thank you for the topic, the meanings come out of my heart as a practicing physician in very critical times where my happiness was the content of an spiritual sadhana where patients unable to find thier medication came to visit with their emotions. The Head Nurse of the hospital will search for me every day to ask me how I was doing. And after walking 6 ks hardly anything for breakfast, warn shoes and clothing and the answer was:”I am happy”….
Thank you so much Dr. Dan and Dr. Santos for this enriching conversation. ‘The Science of Well Being ‘ was a life changing course for me. It helped shift my perspective from the superficial to what really matters. Gratitude for the course Dr. Santos. I strongly recommend everyone to enroll for this one.
Thanks a lot Lauri. Really enjoy your presentation, great tips. Greetings!
Thank you Laurie and Dan, really engaging and practical whilst grounded in the evidence from the research.
Very uplifting and informative. I couldn’t help trying to read the spines of all those books though, in both homes! Beastie Boys…!
Thank you so much Laurie for your talk and love you calling these practices “hacks” heehee! that’s brilliant, stops them from being too serious and allows the lightness to come in. Been keeping a gratitude notebook for about 6 years now, and every night, before I turn the lights out I jotted down 5 things I’m grateful for. So nice to do that, it’s a great way to end the day, no matter what happened, it allows me to smile when I go to sleep. Will look out for your podcast! Thanks again!
Muy buenos “trucos” para el bienestar… Gracias
Thank you for an informative lecture. As a Yoga Teacher, it helped to reaffirm practices that I current do myself or share with my students. You have a very nice presence about you and found the piece on self-compassion particularly interesting. I do believe it is a western thing born from over doing every day with the fast pace of our society.
Appreciate the work you put into this.
Fly high be happy
This interview made me so happy. Inspiration. Knowledge. Ideas. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the inspiration. To choose hapiness is one of my values.
I really appreciate this interview and are longing for more. I am so happy that Kathrine Aspaas
recommended to listen to you.
Love from Norway