Top 5: Finding Joy in Any Job
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
To mark the podcast's fifth birthday, Dr Laurie is revisiting some of her favorite episodes. And this show - Working Your Way to Happiness - has a special place in her heart.
Marty kills rats... but if you asked him what his job is he'd say it was "solving problems" and "helping people". How we view our work can contribute greatly to our daily levels of happiness - far more than money or status.
Dr Laurie examines how we all came to ignore the importance of job satisfaction and hears from Professor Amy Wrzesniewski about "job crafting" - the reframing skill that happy people like Marty use to see their careers as more than just a way to make money.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:06.8 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.8 | It's an exciting time here at the Happiness Lab because the Happiness Lab is having a birthday. |
| 0:21.4 | Our podcast has just turned five years old. |
| 0:23.9 | And to celebrate, I sent my producer, Ryan Dilley, deep into the archive, to grab out the five episodes that I've found the most memorable from all the hundreds that we've made together. |
| 0:32.9 | So, Ryan, which episode is up next? |
| 0:34.9 | So this shows from season two and it's called Working All Way to Happiness. |
| 0:38.7 | This is one where I have a slightly humiliating cameo appearance, but that's not why you chose it, |
| 0:42.8 | right? |
| 0:43.1 | No, it's totally why I chose it. |
| 0:45.1 | I really enjoyed your scream in that episode. |
| 0:47.9 | A lot of this show is built around, as this one from find out, a lot of this show is built |
| 0:51.7 | around me seeing a rat that run into your house. |
| 0:54.5 | Which is the part of the wonderful cameo because we get to hear at least a reenactment of the scream that you gave when you saw the rat. |
| 1:01.4 | But the episode's not about Ryan or screaming. |
| 1:03.6 | It's really about kind of the job of someone who has to deal with folks who see rats all the time. |
| 1:08.8 | We interviewed Yale's pest management person, Marty, |
| 1:12.3 | and he was the perfect guest for this episode because it was an entire episode about what we |
| 1:16.9 | can do to be happier at work and the misconceptions we have about happiness at work, |
| 1:20.9 | like the idea that being a pest control person might not be the best job. When it turns out, |
| 1:25.7 | Marty really adores what he does for work. |
| 1:27.8 | And this episode also includes a research-backed idea that gets more pushbacked than any other |
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