Pushkin. Hey, this is doctor Laurie Sanders. You've reached the Happiness Lab podcast hotline. Is there anything you've always wanted to ask a happiness expert? Hey, Happiness Lab help me. I want to stop all this negative self talk and finally learned to love myself. Maybe a question about how science can teach us to live happier and more enjoyable lives. My question is are we born to work or are
we born to live? In the next season of the Happiness Lab, I'll be feeling questions from listeners just like you, Megan, thank you so much for coming on the Happiness Lab and urgancy of listeners. It's really fun. It's super fun for me too. I'm like fan girling over here. I'll
be diving into the real stories behind their questions. I sort of just raised my head one day and I was like, what am I doing here and asking a host of happiness experts to weigh in on topics from achieving work life balance to becoming friendlier and how we can become more comfortable in social situations. Yeah. I think Jean Paul Sartre said that hell is other people. I think maybe hell is our imagination of what other people are.
But here's the problem. We often interact not with the people who are really out there, but with the people in our minds. We'll also look at how we can rebuild our lives post pandemic, and discuss whether it's even okay to be happy when bad things are happening to people close to us and all around the world. I didn't want to have happiness, guys. I felt like I didn't deserve that when other people were suffering. I've absolutely loved reading through all of my listener messages, and I've
learned a ton making this new series. I hope that you'll pick up some useful tips too. I don't get down on myself if I experience a negative thought, because I realize this is how the human mind operates, and I have agency over how to manage that thought. So join me for The Happiness Lab's short season on Listener Questions special Edition with me doctor law Ari Santos, starting July eleventh,