The Unhappy Millionaire
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How can winning the lottery ruin your life - while contracting an incurable disease feel like 'a gift'? Dr Laurie Santos hears about dreams come true and nightmares realised; and talks with Dr Dan Gilbert about why human happiness isn't defined by these major events in the way we all assume.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to tell you about a show called Exchanges at Goldman Sachs. |
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| 0:23.5 | from the risk of recession to how the metaverse will change our future. |
| 0:27.6 | It's a show that helps you break down big topics and make sense of our fascinating |
| 0:31.1 | complex world. |
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| 0:37.1 | Hello, hello everyone, Gather round. |
| 0:40.7 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:42.3 | If you're a fan of my show revisionist history then you know my deep and abiding obsession |
| 0:47.2 | with American higher education. |
| 0:49.2 | How it's broken, how it can be fixed. |
| 0:52.4 | Over our next couple of episodes we dive into this topic again. |
| 0:57.3 | And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry and the other gives me hope. |
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| 1:26.3 | Billy Bob Harold Jr. A man whose life had been unremarkable before a fateful event that |
| 1:31.6 | ruined everything on June 28th 1997. |
| 1:37.7 | Before that worst thing ever event occurred, Billy Bob was a relatively happy middle-aged |
| 1:42.1 | Texas. |
| 1:43.4 | He was a religious family man who cared deeply about his parents, his wife Barbara Jean, |
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