How Good Manners Made Me Happier (with Etiquette Expert William Hanson)

礼仪之道使我更加快乐(与礼仪专家威廉·汉森)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

2025-06-23

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You might think etiquette is outdated. Who really needs a dinner with nice napkins and four different forks? Etiquette expert William Hanson disagrees. By observing good manners we show others we respect and care about them - deepening our bonds.  William (author of Just Good Manners and host of the podcast Help I Sexted My Boss) explains the origins of many formal behaviours and how they can make us happier.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • I had two poached eggs on some toast.

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  • I used a fork and a knife.

  • I put a placemat down, napkin.

  • We did it relatively formally for a Monday.

  • Placemats?

  • Napkins?

  • I can't remember the last time I used a cloth napkin for breakfast.

  • I'm not even sure I own any cloth napkins.

  • a piece of kitchen towel or something like that which is not pleasant and very coarse on the lips and when I years ago when I was living in a flat we had a fire that was in the laundry cupboard and the napkins were right next door to the fire and this is not what we advise people to do in the case of a fire but I decided to save the napkins and was very carefully moving them out whilst the flat burned around me.

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