Laurie Santos
20 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2022 by Laurie Santos · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jun 14, 2022 neutral
Santos: Time Famine Harms Well-Being More Than Lack of Money
“A lot of the unhappiness hit that comes with poverty isn't necessarily a not having money hit, it's a not having time hit. You know, so she argues that time famine comes with, you know, being low income, and it's actually the time famine that's a real hit on w…”
Jun 14, 2022 neutral
Santos: Religious Happiness Comes From Behaviors, Not Theological Beliefs
“When you really do that work, what you find is that the effect of the correlation between religion and happiness seems to be pretty fully mediated by those religious behaviors. So going to church, doing nice things for other people, you know, taking part in al…”
Jun 14, 2022
Santos: People Instinctively Pick Reference Points That Make Them Feel Inadequate
“The comparison point you pick is always somebody that's going to make you feel like crap. And that makes sense. You know, we want to have something to shoot for, but it means we never feel good with what we have. We're always finding reference points that make…”
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Santos: The Genetic Heritability of Happiness Is Roughly 30% to 40%
“Estimates kind of vary, but it's probably around, you know, 40%, 30%. Like, it's not that all the variants and the happy people that you see out there in the world is like, well, some people are genetically happy and some people aren't. That's just simply not …”
Jun 14, 2022 positive
Santos: People Need Leisure That Is Challenging and Flow-Inducing
“So it's like, we don't want to be at work, but we forget in some ways the, like, good things that work does for our psychology, which is that sometimes Kind of puts us in challenge mode, puts us into flow, and I think the answer is that we kind of all need, we…”
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Santos: Teaching the Happiness Class Raised My Own Well-Being Slightly
“I take a lot of these self-report surveys over time, and I found that, you know, on average, since teaching this class, my well-being has gone up, you know, in a small but significant way, probably about a single point on, like, a ten-point happiness scale”
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Santos: Human Minds Evolved for Survival and Reproduction, Not Happiness
“We are products of natural selection, which is a blind process that, you know, if you kind of intentionalize it, it's kind of going for anything that will get you to survive and reproduce into the next generation. So natural selection is like double down on al…”
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Santos: People Systematically Overestimate the Impact of Future Achievements
“You know, you get a new house, and like, yeah, that feels good, but it doesn't feel as good as you're going to think, and it doesn't feel good for as long as you're going to think. These are errors in what we call affective forecasting. You're forecasting that…”
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Santos: Seeking Solitude During Burnout Cuts Off Restorative Social Connection
“Solitude, I think when you're experiencing this, the depersonalization, which is like rich cynicism, you know, I get it. It's like, I don't want to deal with people anymore. But ultimately that's allowing us, that's forcing us to lose out on this one mechanism…”
Jun 14, 2022 positive
Santos: Altruistic Actions Generate More Happiness Than Self-Care Luxuries
“Happiness is about achieving these accolades. It's not. We often think happiness is about self-care and treating ourselves and giving ourselves these luxuries. It's not. In fact, if anything, it's about doing nice things for others. That gives you more of a ki…”
Jun 14, 2022 positive
Jun 14, 2022
Santos: Over 1,000 Yale Students Enrolled in Inaugural Happiness Course
“We had over a thousand students shopping the class, so they took, like, bump, bump the whole mechanism up by, like, an order of magnitude and in the end, the only room that where we could fit the class on campus was in the concert hall and so over a thousand s…”