2023-12-11
35 分钟Pushkin.
Hello and welcome to House Calls.
I'm Vivek Murthy and I have the honor of serving as US Surgeon General.
I'd like to introduce you to Dr.
Laurie Santos, Professor at Yale University and the creator of the revolutionary class,
Psychology and the Good Life, better known as the Happiness Class.
Today we'll be talking about happiness in the context of the mental health crisis among you.
This episode includes lessons on stress, burnout, and the practice of happiness.
Hi, Laurie.
Welcome to the podcast.
Hey, thanks so much for having me on the show.
I have so much I want to talk to you about today.
But I first just want to ask just about your personal story,
which is I find so fascinating that you went from working on non-human primates to becoming an expert on happiness.
And I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about how that happened.
Yeah, it's a kind of strange path.
And so I've been an academic psychologist for a very, very embarrassingly long time.
Most of the time,
I was really interested in this question of what makes humans unique, what makes us special,
what are some of the ways that we make sense of the world that no other creature does.