Caring What You're Sharing

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sharing a good experience with another human deepens our enjoyment of the moment... but only if we abide by certain rules. Dr Laurie Santos shows us how we often get 'sharing' wrong and explains how we can all derive more happiness from ice cream, sunsets and a night in front of the TV.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	It's October 5, 1833, and inventor William Henry Foxtowett is annoyed.
0:17.0	After months of delays, Foxtowett was finally able to take his new bride on their long-awaited honeymoon
0:23.0	to the beautiful shores of Lake Como, one of the prettiest vacation spots in Italy.
0:29.0	Think shimmering blue waters, statue filled gardens, everyone from Lord Byron to George Clooney has vacation there.
0:36.0	And that's why Foxtowett was annoyed, because he didn't want to just see this lovely scene himself.
0:42.0	He wanted all his friends to see how pretty the lake was, too.
0:46.0	The problem, of course, was that this was 1833. No, smartphone cameras.
0:51.0	If Foxtowett wanted to share this beautiful scene with his friends back home, he had to draw it.
0:57.0	Foxtowett tried sketching the lake side with the help of a camera lucida, the 19th century equivalent of the best smartphone camera.
1:04.0	But his result wasn't all that great. It was so bad, in fact, that he called it a melon-colleid to be hold.
1:11.0	It was in this moment of vacation disappointment that Foxtowett had some inspiration.
1:16.0	How charming it would be, he later wrote, if these natural images could imprint themselves durably upon the paper.
1:23.0	Within just two years, Foxtowett would invent an early way to do this.
1:28.0	He developed the negative positive technique that later became photography, just because he wanted some honeymoon picks to share with the folks back home.
1:39.0	Now let's fast forward to a different October 5th, exactly 177 years to the day that Foxtowett drew that awful picture.
1:50.0	On this October 5th, 2010, another inventor, software engineer Kevin Systrom, is just about to launch the new photo sharing app he's developed with partner Mike Krieger.
2:01.0	It's a sleek new tool that lets users take interesting photos to share with friends, what Systrom called an instant telegram of sorts.
2:09.0	So they christened it, Instagram.
2:12.0	Systrom launched the app just after midnight, within hours, Instagram servers crashed, too many downloads.
2:19.0	In 24 hours, Instagram had 25,000 users.
2:23.0	Today, the site boasts 1,000 new uploaded photos every single second.
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