"I think we just have our minds lie to us, right? This is the whole premise of the happiness lab," he says. "We're walking around with these brains that have all these misconceptions about what makes you happy or doesn't make you happy" He adds: "There's a billion ways in which changing your circumstances can actually make you happier"
What do you do when you enter "survival mode"? How can you become better at forging social connections? Can you be happy in a sad world? Happiness experts Dr Laurie Santos and Gretchen Rubin came together at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival to answer these and other questions from a live audience.
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