How to be Awesome - With Almost no Effort (with John Green)
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author John Green wants to see less suck in the world and more awesome - and you can help achieve that right now! John's turned his attention to tuberculosis (TB) - a disease that is fixable and yet still kills millions of people. But you can stop that.
TB is a disease of poverty - so if you can spare a buck, then you can save lives by donating to GiveDirectly.org/tb
Giving to help others is proven to make us feel happier and more hopeful in tough times, so Dr Laurie will match every dollar up to the first $10,000, and John will match donations up to $10,000 after that.
It's a bad time for people everywhere - but even a dollar donated at GiveDirectly.org/tb will reduce the suck and increase the awesome.
John's new book Everything is Tuberculosis is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, Happiness Lab listeners. Today, you are in for a treat, because by the end of this episode, |
| 0:17.7 | my guest and I will have shared how you can do something totally awesome, |
| 0:21.1 | totally life-saving, and something totally happiness-inducing with almost zero effort. |
| 0:26.2 | And spoiler, it's going to involve the website give directly.org slash t-B. That's give |
| 0:31.2 | directly.org slash t-B. One of my favorite parts of being hosted at the Happiness Lab is that I get |
| 0:37.1 | to share stuff that I love with you, |
| 0:39.2 | like the time I interviewed my 80s heartthrob Rob Lowe about nostalgia. |
| 0:42.9 | Just talking with you on the Zoom call, and I'm taking back to movies I watched in grade school and fun times in college. |
| 0:49.7 | That is amazing. It makes me feel so good. |
| 0:52.5 | Or when I geeked out about Star Trek with Lieutenant Wesley |
| 0:54.9 | Crusher himself, Will We in? Star Trek looks through the screen and it says there is a place |
| 1:00.8 | specifically for you in the future. Like you, Lori, there is a space for you in the future. I loved that. |
| 1:07.6 | But today, I not only get to chat with someone who I have nerded out about for a very, very long time, |
| 1:12.6 | but I also have the chance to invite you to help that guest do something to make the world a better place. |
| 1:17.6 | If you happen to be a nerd fighter like me, then get ready, because today I'll be chatting with the amazing John Green. |
| 1:24.6 | I don't even have my headphones in. This is a catastrophe of the scale of which |
| 1:29.8 | nobody's ever seen before. No, you're good. Good, good. Let me make sure I'm on the right |
| 1:33.7 | fancy mic. I am. Okay, great. I'm guessing a lot of my happiness lab listeners know who |
| 1:39.3 | John Green is. John is first and foremost a best-selling author, both of beloved fictional books like Turtles |
| 1:45.4 | All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars, but also nonfiction grades, like The Anthropocene |
| 1:50.4 | reviewed, a book in which he expertly reviews everything from Diet Dr. Pepper to the smallpox vaccine. |
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