The Joy of Star Trek, The Grateful Dead and Hot Sauce: The Happiness Lab Returns September 6

Published Aug 22, 2022, 4:01 AM

Happiness can be found in unusual places. Dr Laurie Santos returns with a new season that takes us to the fun frontiers of fandom with Star Trek's Wesley Crusher; to the world's happiest country in the depths of winter; and inside the ranch that inspired The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart to exclaim "YOLO!".  

And you'll hear what it's like to chug the hottest hot sauce on the planet to get a rush of pleasure. 

The Happiness Lab Returns September 6 - wherever you get your podcasts. 

Pushkin. What could be more appetizing than a new season of the Happiness Lab. How about drinking the world's hottest hot sauce straight from the bottle. Wow, that is a large swig. Oh my god, this isn't a stunt. You're listening to the science of well being in action. Ah yeah. This season we'll be unraveling the mystery of why small doses of fear, sadness, and pain can feel good. Yollow, lightheaded, I felow, loopy, goosey. I feel like I love my job. Your glasses are fucking enough. Watch. We'll also be hitting the gym. I was the last one to finish some horrific series of running and lifting and buppies to find if it's the right place to flex our friendship muscles. And everyone stood around me clapping like shouting my name, being like you can do it, and of course in the moment, and I hated every single one of them. We'll also head back to the playground to talk about modern parenting is on a slide. I thought he was afraid. No, no, no, he was looking to me for how should I feel. Oh Mom's afraid, Oh dad's afraid. What is happening? To me. We love our kids and want them to be happy, but are we guilty of doing too much? Oh my god, if I could go back, because that was the beginning of just a decade and a half of overparenting. This season of The Happiness Lab also features the US Surgeon General Star Treks Wesley Crusher, and the person credited with coining a very famous phrase, Yeah there was a song yolo, I mean yoo the Grateful Dead's drummer Mickey Hart yoo yo. He'll explain why that you only live once philosophy doesn't work the way we think. It takes courage to go away you've never been before and do what you've never done before. Douce something and commit to it with everything you'll have, will globetrot and meet a woman whose pursuit of happiness met moving to the middle of nowhere in the depths of winter. It was the coldest I have ever been. Plus you'll still get evidence based tips and well being hacks from the greatest researchers and experts working in the fields of happiness science. I look at this pursuit of happiness a lot like a game of blackjack, and you get to stack the deck. You can have a deck full six and sevens, or you can stack that deck with aces and jacks. But I'll leave you with a question, what's your biggest regret in life? My instinct was that my early twenties with a perfect moment to broaden my horizons, experience a new culture, and take a risk. Instead, I moved to Indiana. Oh Man, I blew it. We love Indiana. By the way. The Happiness Lab with me, Doctor Laurie Santos return September sixth. Wherever you get your podcasts, miss it and you'll regret it.

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