Top 5: How to Act Like an Extrovert

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's Happiness Lab's fifth birthday - so as part of the celebration we're playing some of Dr Laurie's favorite episodes. The final selection attracted a lot of downloads when it went out. but also made some people mad. The Introvert's Guide to Extroversion.

Jessica Pan hated social gatherings - she cried when her friends threw her a surprise birthday party, and was even too scared to give a speech at her own wedding. Jessica was a hardcore introvert - and it was making her sad.

Extroverts find it easier to experience the joy that comes with social interactions - but that doesn't mean introverts are doomed to lives that lack such fun. Jessica read some research that suggested introverts can learn to enjoy being more outgoing - so decided to turn her social life around.

You can read more of Jessica's story in her book: Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes. She is posting updates from her year of extroverting at her Substack, "It'll Be Fun, They Said" (https://jesspan.substack.com/).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.8	We've been celebrating five years of the happiness lab by resurfacing five of my
0:18.9	favorite episodes of the show. We've already gone all the way
0:21.8	back to when we started out in 2019. But this final episode brings us nearly up to date. And my producer,
0:27.4	Ryan Dilley, has it ready to go. Ryan, what's episode number five? So this is from 2023, and it's
0:32.6	called The Interverts Guide to Extraversion. So why do you want me to get this one out? Oh, this is one of my
0:37.4	favorites, because it's also about the benefits of social connection,
0:40.7	even for people who might not think they get a lot of benefit out of social connection.
0:44.6	It was a really popular episode, as I remember, and did really well in terms of download.
0:48.2	But it also prompted lots of complaints.
0:50.5	Why do you think that was?
0:51.3	Well, I think introverts really felt that we were attacking them, but that wasn't really
0:55.2	the case.
0:56.2	All we were doing was showing the benefits of social connection, even for folks who have personalities
1:00.5	that might not really resonate with social connection.
1:03.3	We got to interview this lovely guest, Jessica Pan, who talked about her book, Sorry
1:07.5	I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come, The Introverts Guide to Extroverting.
1:15.7	And she did this lovely experiment where, as an introvert, she tried engaging in a little bit more extroverted activities for a whole year.
1:18.3	And she found there were many more happiness benefits than she expected.
1:22.0	I mean, this is a subject really dear to my heart.
1:23.9	I've always been quite nervous about talking to new people.
1:26.6	I don't even like doing this recording now. But I work really hard to try and overcome some of that. I think it's
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