Meet Harvard's Professor Of "Happiness" | Dr. Robert Waldinger
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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The Impact of the Pandemic on Happiness
I'm always so torn between these traumatic episodes, whether on an individual level, or if we zoom out into like the Great Depression or World War II level of calamity. We never want that for society. But at the same time, there's this level of post-traumatic growth when you basically have enough resources not to be overwhelmed by a challenge. There's just trauma when you're overwhelmed, right? And so we're all wondering, are we going to being overwhelmed by climate change? Are we going to been overwhelmed by AI taking over our lives?
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