How Do We Find a Balance Between Being Happy and Living in the Moment

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How do we find a balance between being happy and living in the moment while acknowledging all the hurt and suffering going on in the world? Am bailey ricketts wants to know. There's evidence that so many of the things we are talking about that are parts of a happy life help for doing hard things. So far from feeing feeling guilty, i feel like we might want to feel guilty for the opposite thing, right? You know, do what we can to kind of fix things. It really does require not just working on these structures, but working on our emotions too.

HAPPINESS RESEARCH, straight up. What is happiness? How do our circumstances affect happiness? Why is the word “gratitude” kinda cringey? What can we do to feel better? Should we feel guilty for feeling happy? When is positivity “toxic?” Yale cognitive scientist, Eudemonologist, and host of The Happiness Lab podcast Dr. Laurie Santos chats about how scientists measure human happiness and what their research has shown helps achieve it, even during the worst of times. Also: silver medal face & countering counterfactuals, which will make sense when you listen.

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