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The science of happiness (w/ Laurie Santos)

How to Be a Better Human

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Is That Part of What Got You Into Human Happiness?

I think one of the reasons I was always so fascinated with work in monkeys is because a lot of times we get focused on, oh, humans, we do things so amazingly well. But when I looked to humans, what I saw generally was, yeah, you know, we're doing great. And nationally right now more than one in 10 students has seriously considered suicide in the last year. So that was kind of more the origin story was to realize we got to do something about this. It's not just at Yale. In fact, there's lots of evidence that just nationally students are really struggling.

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