Happiness: Podcast Brunch Club listening list (March 2020)

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  • 1

    Mistakenly Seeking Solitude

    The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

    34:24 | Oct 8th, 2019

    6 recommendations

    Technology allows us to bank, shop and dine without talking to another human, but what toll is this taking on our happiness? The inventor of the ATM and the Talking Heads singer David Byrne join Dr La...Show More

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    Was just talking to @danny about cashier-less retailers after seeing Amazon’s checkout-free physical store. We discussed what these cashier-less retailers are trying to solve and whether it actually c...Show More

  • 2

    Making Kindness Contagious

    The Science of Happiness

    15:58 | Aug 15th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    We gave our Happiness Guinea Pig a mission: Do five random acts of kindness in one day.

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    That anecdote about the little girl coming back for another flower to give to more people gave me all the feels 🥰

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    How To Measure Happiness

    The Indicator from Planet Money

    09:53 | Apr 8th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    The U.S. is one of the world's largest economies, but it lags when it comes to happiness: the World Happiness Report ranks America number 19.

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    The Happiness Index was created by profs at my alma matar UBC! And the key to being happy as a nation is to not care about how happy you are (i.e. don’t have the “Jones’ complex”)

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    The Happiness Industry: Laurie Taylor talks to Will Davies, Professor in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, who asks why policy makers have become increasingly focused on measuring happines...Show More

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    Is the happiness index just a neoliberal construct for economic growth? Also an exploration of why the wellness industry can mislead people to thinking their happiness should be coming from within and...Show More

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    Picture this—an Australian journalist sitting near a squat toilet under the only light in the prison cell he shares with 140 others, writing pages of notes about happiness. After 15 months in a notori...Show More

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    Lovely episode that gives you a different view on life and happiness. An Australian journalist was accused of being a spy in Cambodia and locked up in jail for six years where he had less than 1m x 1m...Show More

  • 6

    Emily Esfahani Smith

    The One You Feed

    39:17 | Jan 10th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Please Support The Show With a Donation   This week we talk to Emily Esfahani Smith Emily Esfahani Smith is the author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters She graduated from Dartmou...Show More

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    Having purpose is important to feeling happy and content.

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    Meet Andi Paradise, chapter leader of PBC-Santa Cruz

    Podcast Brunch Club

    40:51 | Mar 30th, 2020

    Support PBC: * Become a monthly Patreon member (and get some bonus content) * Make a one-time donation via Paypal In this episode, we’re joined by Andi Paradise, the former leader of our chapter...Show More

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