From The Happiness Lab: Abby Cadabby and the Magic of Gratitude

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Listen to this special episode from another podcast you'll love called The Happiness Lab!

It's never too early or too late to learn how to be happier. Whether you're aged 3, 23 or 103, we've teamed up with our furry friends from Sesame Street to bring you fun and fact-based tips to improve the wellbeing of you and the people around you.

We begin with Abby Cadabby - a fairy who isn't having such a great day. Her usual spells can't rid her of her "grumpies", so Dr Laurie teaches her the magical effect that being grateful for who and what is around you can have on your mood.

(Sesame Workshop is a non-profit organization with a mission to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. The work they do is funded by donations big and small - so if you want to become a part of their important work to improve children’s emotional well-being, then visit: sesameworkshop.org/support-us/)

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Lari Santos, post of the Happiness Lab podcast. It's never too late or too early
0:14.6	to learn how to feel happier. So my new season has well-being tips for you whether you're
0:18.9	aged three or a hundred or six like me. Did I mention I have some amazing co-hosts for
0:24.0	this season? And do not forget cute and furry! How could I grover? I'll be joined by my
0:28.6	fabulous friends from Sesame Street. If you're a fan of the Happiness Lab, you probably know
0:53.6	the show's origin story. As a college professor, I started worrying about the levels of stress
0:58.3	and anxiety I was seeing in my students. Welcome everybody to Psychology and the Good Life.
1:03.1	So I developed a class on the Science of Happiness. So we're going to start by talking about why I'm
1:07.5	teaching this class in the first place. Of course, designed to teach my students research-based
1:11.0	strategies that they could use to navigate tough times, improve their emotional health, and feel
1:15.6	happier. It became Yale's most popular class ever. I'm a little bit surprised to see as many of you
1:21.6	are here as are here, but that's great. It has now offered both free online and at other universities
1:26.6	around the world. And the science shows that learning these happiness strategies really does help.
1:31.5	Several new studies have found that students who learn the tips I teach show significant
1:35.6	improvements in their overall well-being. But there is one thing about learning all these
1:39.6	happiness tips that makes my students feel a little frustrated. I'm so thankful to have learned
1:44.4	all these helpful strategies a student will always say, but I really, really wish I had learned
1:48.8	this stuff earlier. And believe me, I totally get that frustration. Nowadays, I'm an expert on happiness,
1:54.8	but I didn't learn these tips until my fourth decade. My life would have been way less stressful
2:00.0	and emotionally fraught if I had all these happiness habits earlier. Honestly, if I had a time
2:05.6	machine, I'd go back to the early 80s, find my kid's self, and teach her exactly the same things
2:11.1	that I tell my students now. You see, it doesn't matter if you're 3, 23, or 103, the same happiness
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