2024-12-23
3 小时 8 分钟Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
My guest today is Dr.
Laurie Santos.
Dr.
Laurie Santos is a Professor of Cognitive science and Psychology at Yale University.
She is a world expert in happiness and in the science of emotions generally.
Today we talk about true happiness not in any kind of loose and aspirational way, but instead what the research really tells us about how to create lasting happiness for ourselves.
We talk about relationships and happiness, that is relationships of all kinds, between friends, between romantic partners, between family members, and of course with ourselves.
We talk about all of that in the context of what to do, what not to do, and how to frame your whole notion of what happiness is and how to attain it in the context of daily to dos.
For instance, most all of us by now have heard about the power of gratitude and gratitude practices.
In fact, I've done an entire episode about gratitude and the science of gratitude.
But Dr.
Laurie Santos today explains that by shifting our orientation toward gratitude towards something more aligned with what delights us, we are able to better tap into the mechanisms that enable us to feel happier in a more pervasive way.
We also discuss topics such as hedonic adaptation, that is how our pursuit of things and our whole experience of pleasure sets the stage for what's going to feel like a meaningful pursuit and pleasureful in the days and weeks to follow.
This is very important for everyone to hear, especially in this modern age of so called dopamine hits easy to achieve dopamine, highly processed foods and and the various things that you can find online.
And speaking of online, we also discussed the role that smartphones and social media play not just in our happiness, but in our cognition.
You'll be shocked.
Indeed, I was shocked to learn that just having your phone in the room where you are trying to learn something significantly diminishes your performance on things like mathematics and the learning of other topics.
We get into all of that today, the interrelated parts, and I promise that it's all made extremely clear and actionable thanks to Dr.