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