Q: "Are We Born to Work? Or Born to Live?"

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  Pushkin.

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  As a happiness expert, I give a lot of public talks on the science of well-being.

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  I've kind of lost track of exactly how many I've done, but at this point it must be in the hundreds.

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  At the end of every lecture,

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  I usually try to leave at least a few minutes to take questions from the audience.

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  Hello,

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  you said you spent a lot of time with the students in the correlation of too much alcohol use and nightlife,

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  not enough sleep.

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  So what did you find there?

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  Yeah, so the question is about those Q&A sessions.

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  They're my favorite part of speaking.

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  I can pretty much guarantee that someone will ask a question that'll make me stop and think again about the challenges we all face to become happier.

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  We've been focusing on the younger generation,

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  but a lot of surveys indicate that as you get older, you get happier.

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  And because I love these Q&A sessions so much,

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  I've always thought it was a shame that listeners to this podcast have to miss out on them.

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  And so I decided to change that.

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  I put out a request for any and all Happiness Lab listener questions on my Twitter and Instagram feeds.

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  And immediately, I had a ton of great ones flooding in.

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  Questions like this one.

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