Sam Harris speaks with Laurie Santos about the scientific study of happiness. They discuss people's expectations about happiness, the experiencing self vs the remembered self, framing effects, the importance of social connections, the effect of focusing on the happiness of others, introversion and extroversion, the influence of technology on social life, our relationship to time, the connection between happiness and ethics, hedonic adaptation, the power of mindfulness, resilience, the often illusory significance of reaching goals, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

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#196 — The Science of Happiness

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Sam Harris Episodes Around April 10, 2020

#181 — The Illusory Self

#182 — Unlearning Race

#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality

#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#186 — The Bomb

#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#189 — Wealth & Happiness

#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?

#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic

#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#193 — Meditation in an Emergency

#194 — The New Future of Work

#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything

#196 — The Science of Happiness

#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#200 — Creatures of Habit

#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang

#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy

#206 — A Conversation with David Frum

#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

#208 — Existential Risk

#209 — A Good Life

#210 — The Logic of Doomsday

#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

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