2026-01-09
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Welcome back to a new season of the Happiness Lab and Happy 2026 Happiness Lab listeners.
There's something so hopeful about the start of a new year.
For many of us, January feels like a clean slate.
a chance to start fresh as the healthier, happier person we want to be.
But if there's one thing we know about human nature, it's that behavior change is hard.
We set goals, make resolutions, feel motivated to do things differently,
and then we slip back into exactly the same habits we had the year before.
The ones we know just don't work.
So the goal of this new season of the Happiness Lab is to give us the psychological traction we need to break out of all the ruts that we've been stuck in for a while.
Rather than give you the usual New Year platitudes,
we'll be exploring strategies that research shows can actually help us get unstuck and back in motion.
Over the course of the next few episodes,
we'll hear science-backed tips for embracing the kinds of changes that feel scary,
for finding a sense of purpose in the midst of exhaustion,
and for feeling less overwhelmed with the current state of the world.
And in this first episode in our Getting Unstuck in the New Year season,
we'll tackle the challenge of unsticking our effort.