What Can We Learn From the Happiest Country on Earth?
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
There are certain nations which always top the rankings in the World Happiness Report. What are they doing right, that other countries are getting wrong? And what can you do to make your home country happier?
John Helliwell of the World Happiness Report explains how things like wealth, freedom and friendship combine to make a happy society - and how tiny changes in your home, neighborhood or workplace can have a huge national impact.
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| 1:16.0 | I hope you enjoyed our special episode. I hope you enjoyed our special episode celebrating the International Day of Happiness and the release of the World Happiness Report on March 20th. |
| 1:30.5 | In case you missed it, I asked several of my fellow Pushkin podcast hosts to pretend that they were an author on this year's world happiness report. |
| 1:38.0 | I asked each of them, what chapter would you write? |
| 1:41.0 | Okay, well this one's really easy for me, mental chatter. Oh yeah. I was |
| 1:45.0 | objecting to the phrase, it's the journey not the destination. It's the journey and |
| 1:50.7 | the destination. It's the journey and the destination. |
| 1:53.2 | Yes, I'll buy that. |
| 1:54.7 | Well, the World Happiness Report 2024 is now finally out. |
| 1:58.4 | So for the next few episodes, I'll be talking to the report's real authors |
| 2:02.2 | about the issues they think are most pressing |
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