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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

How to Make America's Young People Happier Again

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The US is sliding down the world happiness rankings - but it's the unhappiness of young people that's really dragging down the average. What has happened to make Gen Z so sad? And what can be done to turn the situation around?

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (director of Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre) has been analyzing the figures for the World Happiness Report. He offers advice to young people and parents, and looks at what happy young Lithuanians can teach the rest of the world.

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When the team behind the annual World Happiness Report finds that Finns are happier than Danes or that Canadians are happier than Americans, those broad results hide a ton of nuance.

1:31.0

We've been unpacking some of the report's more interesting

1:33.9

details in our last few episodes, but today we're going to tackle one of the most

1:38.2

striking findings in this year's report. What's been happening to young

1:42.0

people's happiness over the last few years.

1:44.0

And the picture is pretty complicated.

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The good news is that youth happiness has been rising

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in certain parts of the world.

1:51.0

But the bad news is that some of the wealthy nations

1:54.1

out there have seen worrying declines, and that includes the young people where I live in North America.

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