Want to ‘Optimize’ Your Happiness? This Happiness Expert Says: Don’t.

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  From the New York Times, this is The Interview.

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  I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

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  Are you happy?

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  It's a deceptively simple question, right?

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  But for me, at least, it's a really difficult one to answer.

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  Another tough question.

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  Why is it so hard to be happy for so many people?

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  Despite a culture of wellness influencers with their happiness hacks and mindset tricks,

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  all of the indicators show that we Americans are less happy than ever.

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  What is going on and what can we do about it?

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  I put those questions to Dr. Laurie Santos.

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  Santos is a cognitive scientist whose class on happiness quickly became the most popular in Yale's history.

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  And through her podcast, The Happiness Lab,

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  and her free online course called The Science of Wellbeing, Santos' reach has extended well beyond the classroom.

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  I wanted to understand what the science says happiness really is, how our understanding

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