2019-08-27
3 分钟Pushkin Prepare your ears for the sounds of happiness What you're hearing is pure joy This high school student just learned she got into her dream college I'm Laurie Santos.
I'm a professor at that very dream college, Yale University.
And sadly, I've seen that joyous moments like these don't last as long as my students think.
Young people today are more stressed, anxious,
and depressed than they've ever been, which is really tragic.
But it's not just college students.
Many of us are starting to feel like happiness is increasingly out of reach.
All right, let's get started.
So I decided to do something about it.
I developed a class on the science of happiness.
It was a runaway success.
It became the most popular class ever at Yale.
So many people turned up that I had to teach the course in a concert hall.
The class has changed my life and the lives of thousands of other people.
And now I want to share these insights with you.
So I teamed up with Pushkin Industries to make this new podcast called The Happiness Lab.
I want to invite you on a journey, one in which we'll tackle a puzzling question.
What really makes us happy?
One guy had $500 million, but after working with these people,
I understand money is not going to buy you happiness.