2024-07-19
48 分钟Making shows about her own happiness challenges was both fun and instructive for Dr Laurie, but it also took guts to be so vulnerable and open. She later spoke to her close friend at Yale Dr Tamar Gendler about the experience. This private chat threw up lots of interesting insights, so when the duo were asked to speak at the 2024 International Festival of Arts and Ideas... they decided to share parts of that private conversation with the public. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thanks to everyone who listened to the most recent season of the Happiness Lab, which was all about the well being challenges that I struggle with most.
I've learned a lot from making that series, but I gotta admit, at times it was pretty hard.
I know it's healthy to be vulnerable and talk about your problems, but it's often easier said than done.
Which is exactly what I'll be discussing on this week's episode with my dear colleague, the Yale philosopher and cognitive scientist, Tamar Gendler.
I'm guessing you've probably heard Tamar in the Happiness Lab before.
In the past, we've talked about what famous philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle said about happiness.
But as my close friend, Tamar also had lots of interesting ideas about the problems I decided to tackle in the last season.
So when Tamar and I were invited to give a joint Talk at the 2024 International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut, we thought, why not reflect on what we've both learned from these personal shows?
The festival arts and ideas kindly allowed us to share our conversation.
So now you can listen too.
I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you so much to all of you who are joining us here.
It really feels like we are among friends, but one of the things you may or may not know is that in addition to being professional colleagues who've done a lot of work together, Laurie and I are actually very close friends.
And in fact, we're such close friends that we often finish one another's sentences.
So what we want to do today is actually have a conversation with you that's much more intimate and personal than we have ever done before in a public setting.
Everything that we say to one another is going to be informed by the academic research that we do.
But our goal in speaking before you today is really to give some autobiographical information about our own experiences, our own struggles, and our own challenges.
And Lori has set the tone for doing this with her recent podcast.
The Happiness Lab is my podcast where I talk about so many things.
In the Science of Happiness, we focused on lots of different topics, but just this summer, we started a new season.