Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Aristotle and Plato ICYMI

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  Pushkin.

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  In our last episode, we learned about the ideas of the great Greek thinker Socrates.

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  My friend and Yale colleague Tamar Gentler gave us a glimpse into the so-called Socratic method,

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  which calls on all of us to question every belief we hold and every assumption we make.

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  But we also heard that the story of Socrates didn't have the happiest of endings.

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  His habit of getting us to regularly challenge everything we know was a bit too radical for many of his fellow ancient Greeks,

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  and so he was sentenced to death for the alleged crime of corrupting the youth.

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  But Socrates' ideas didn't die with him.

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  Many other famous Greek thinkers picked up where their teacher Socrates left off,

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  and their work also has much to teach us about how to live a flourishing life.

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  We looked at some of this wisdom in a previous season of Happiness Lessons of the Ancients,

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  again with the help of my amazing friend Tamar Gendler.

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  So in case you missed it last time,

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  I wanted to share those past episodes once again in a special doubleheader today.

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  You'll hear some important insights on how we can realign the parts of our minds from Socrates' student Plato.

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  And you'll learn about Aristotle,

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  a real OG happiness expert who has some helpful tips on how we can feel happier with the right habits.

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  I hope you enjoy these special back-to-back episodes.

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  We humans were already pretty complicated creatures.

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  But living in the modern world has added a ton more complication to our lives.

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