Coming Soon: The Happiness Lab Season One
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So, should we go electric? I think we should go electrified with Toyota. Electrified? Electrified means options. Yes, we could go all electric with a Toyota BZ4X, but then there are hybrids like Grand Highlander, or we could do something in between like a RAV4 plug-in hybrid. So, Toyota is electrified diversified? Yup, and with more options for reducing carbon emissions, the closer we all get to Toyota's beyond zero vision for the future. Exactly how much coffee have you had this morning? Oh!

Learn more about our Beyond Zero vision for the future at toyota.com slash beyondzero. I love working at Yale and living in New Haven, Connecticut. But being a happiness expert means I travel a lot. Just in this upcoming semester, I'll be headed to Nebraska, California, and Amsterdam. But while I'm away, my home is usually just stuck there empty. I hate to think of my lovely yard just sitting there empty while my entire house could be earning me some extra cash. If you travel a lot,

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Find out how much at airbnb.com slash host. Here's to the magic of summer, to ice cold lemonade on a hot afternoon, to the smell of burgers on the grill. The Chinette brand is all about maximizing fun this summer and minimizing cleanup hassles. That's why Chinette Classic, Crystal, and Comfort Collections are part of every summer gathering.

And since Chinette Classic plates and bowls are compostable and Chinette Comfort Cups are made with at least 80% renewable materials, you can feel good knowing your summer gatherings are leaving less of a mess behind for future generations. Here's to making each weekend, and long weekend, unforgettable. Here's to us. All of us. Find a local retailer at MyChinette.com. Pushkin. So it's okay. It's fine. No. 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. 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 increasingly 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 Yale. I'm a little bit surprised to see as many of you are here as are here, but that's great. 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 we'll tackle a puzzling question. What really makes us happy? One guy had $500 million. 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, happiness.

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 the 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, we'll 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've put the science into practice.

Would a gold medal make me happier? It's not the medals. It's hearing the crowd and hearing the ice when I skated over. It's 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! Oh!

So are you ready to feel better? Then join me for The Happiness Lab, launching on September 17th. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Here's to the magic of summer, to ice-cold lemonade on a hot afternoon, to the smell of burgers on the grill. The Chinette brand is all about maximizing fun this summer and minimizing cleanup hassles. That's why Chinette Classic, Crystal, and Comfort Collections are part of every summer gathering.

And since Chinette Classic plates and bowls are compostable and Chinette Comfort Cups are made with at least 80% renewable materials, you can feel good knowing your summer gatherings are leaving less of a mess behind for future generations. Here's to making each weekend, and long weekend, unforgettable. Here's to us. All of us. Find a local retailer at MyChinette.com.