2024-03-20
48 分钟Pushkin.
Hello, and if you're listening to this on March 20th, happy World Happiness Day.
On the Happiness Lab, we suggest you do something to improve your well-being every day of the year.
But if the United Nations wants us all to make a special effort for 24 hours in March,
then we're on board with that too.
The first International Day of Happiness was celebrated back in 2013.
The goal was to raise awareness that our well-being can be improved
if only more governments enacted policies to help us all become a little happier.
On each International Day of Happiness, the United Nations also issues the World Happiness Report.
Written by scientists and academics, this report examines different themes,
showing what we're getting right when it comes to happiness and what we still need to work on.
Past reports have looked at happiness and parenting, what living in cities does for our happiness,
and more recently, the impact that COVID-19 has had on our well-being.
Over the next few episodes of The Happiness Lab,
we'll be talking to the experts behind this year's World Happiness Report.
They're among the best and brightest in the field of happiness science,
so these are going to be some fantastic episodes.
But for this show today, we're doing something a little different.
The Happiness Lab is made by Pushkin Industries,
and many of the network's other hosts have some pretty interesting takes on what can make us all happier.