In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Laurie Santos about the scientific study of happiness.
Their conversation includes:
- people’s expectations about happiness
- the experiencing self vs. the remembered self
- framing effects
- the importance of social connections
- the effect of focusing on the happiness of others
- introversion and extroversion
- the influence of technology on social life
- our relationship to time
- the connection between happiness and ethics
- hedonic adaptation
- the power of mindfulness
- resilience
- the often illusory significance of reaching goals
- and other topics
Laurie Santos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She hosts the popular podcast The Happiness Lab and she teaches the most popular course offered at Yale to date, titled The Science of Well-Being. Laurie is also the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center at Yale. She received her A.B. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003.
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Happiness and meaning go together...
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I completely agree that happiness and meaning go together! Happiness is the ultimate goal in life, and a good death, for me. And happiness should always be shared so I'll have to take a listen.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you Granville, i would even go as far as to say that their is no happiness to our life without purpose.#11
DeleteI think Victor Frankl's philosophy carries a special weight in that he was put in some of the worst conditions experienced in modern human history at Auschwitz and managed to emerge with a profound sense of purpose because of it. He didn't simply sit at a desk and theorize about these conditions. He lived them.
ReplyDeleteAs I've quoted before, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."