With Elmo's Help... It's Never Too Early to Learn About Happiness

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  Pushkin.

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  Did you ever hear of a happiness hack or well-being strategy on this show and think,

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  gee, I wish I learned that one years ago?

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  It's certainly never too late to discover the lessons that the science of happiness has to offer.

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  I know from your emails that some of you listening right now are in your sixth, seventh,

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  and even eighth decades and that you still feel that you learn a ton from what we talk about on the Happiness Lab.

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  But there's also a growing movement arguing that it's never too early to start mastering these happiness hacks.

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  The very things that science shows can make grown adults flourish.

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  Practices like mindfulness, gratitude, or being sociable and other-oriented.

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  All of these are habits that can boost well-being in younger minds too.

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  And that's the reason that I got started teaching happiness in the first place.

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  The students who take my science of well-being class are incredibly smart,

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  but also surprisingly anxious and unhappy young adults.

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  I think my class helps.

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  But I wish that my students could have learned all the strategies I teach long before they entered college.

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  That's why I recently launched a free course for adolescents called the Science of Well-Being for Teens,

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  which you can find on YouTube or on Coursera.org.

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  But we shouldn't just begin taking care of our emotional health in middle school either.

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  We should be getting this knowledge to kids even earlier.

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  So how can we get children to start investing in their happiness as soon

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