The Science of a Happy and Meaningful Life ft. Dacher Keltner
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Humor Is Fundamental to Human Happiness
Eddie Vedder: Humor is the ability to make light of serious conditions or circumstances. It manifests in all manner of human universals from telling jokes to fools and court societies to satire. He says that what it does is it brings us together and helps us make light of hard stuff in life, be it trauma or stress or a mistake that we've made which we joke about. Vedder: There are remarkable studies, one of my favorite being the study of laughter,. not only does laughter calm your body down, but reflexively if you study the acoustics of laughter.
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