Dr. Laurie Santos

There are strategies you can use to feel better, but they're going to take a little bit of work.

There are strategies you can use to feel better, but they're going to take a little bit of work.

I think there's lots of big connections. I think lots of folks have been studying mattering, even though they might not be calling it mattering, if that makes sense. I think one of the domains where mattering connects with happiness a lot is in the domain of our social connection. Pretty much every available study of happy people suggests happy people are more social, right?

I think there's lots of big connections. I think lots of folks have been studying mattering, even though they might not be calling it mattering, if that makes sense. I think one of the domains where mattering connects with happiness a lot is in the domain of our social connection. Pretty much every available study of happy people suggests happy people are more social, right?

I think there's lots of big connections. I think lots of folks have been studying mattering, even though they might not be calling it mattering, if that makes sense. I think one of the domains where mattering connects with happiness a lot is in the domain of our social connection. Pretty much every available study of happy people suggests happy people are more social, right?

They spend more time with their friends and family members. They even connect more with strangers on the street. But yet we don't really invest in social connection as much as we probably should, given how much it really impacts our happiness. The reason I think this is connected with mattering is that one of the most important ways to matter in the world is to matter socially, right?

They spend more time with their friends and family members. They even connect more with strangers on the street. But yet we don't really invest in social connection as much as we probably should, given how much it really impacts our happiness. The reason I think this is connected with mattering is that one of the most important ways to matter in the world is to matter socially, right?

They spend more time with their friends and family members. They even connect more with strangers on the street. But yet we don't really invest in social connection as much as we probably should, given how much it really impacts our happiness. The reason I think this is connected with mattering is that one of the most important ways to matter in the world is to matter socially, right?

People care about you. They care how your day is going. They want to talk to you about it, right? To do that, you just have to connect with other people, right? But in addition, there's lots of work showing that it's not just social connection that matters for our happiness. It's really the social impact that we're having.

People care about you. They care how your day is going. They want to talk to you about it, right? To do that, you just have to connect with other people, right? But in addition, there's lots of work showing that it's not just social connection that matters for our happiness. It's really the social impact that we're having.

People care about you. They care how your day is going. They want to talk to you about it, right? To do that, you just have to connect with other people, right? But in addition, there's lots of work showing that it's not just social connection that matters for our happiness. It's really the social impact that we're having.

One of the biggest hacks that I teach my students about happiness is that a big way to boost your own happiness is not to treat yourself, to engage in self-care. but to do something for other people, right? Help someone else, give them a compliment, share what you're grateful for about them, right?

One of the biggest hacks that I teach my students about happiness is that a big way to boost your own happiness is not to treat yourself, to engage in self-care. but to do something for other people, right? Help someone else, give them a compliment, share what you're grateful for about them, right?

One of the biggest hacks that I teach my students about happiness is that a big way to boost your own happiness is not to treat yourself, to engage in self-care. but to do something for other people, right? Help someone else, give them a compliment, share what you're grateful for about them, right?

This idea of doing something nice for other people seems to be an incredibly quick path to our happiness. And I think one of the reasons is that it's a way of mattering, right? When you help someone else and they say, oh my gosh, thank you for that thing that you did for me. That's a really easy way of mattering, right?

This idea of doing something nice for other people seems to be an incredibly quick path to our happiness. And I think one of the reasons is that it's a way of mattering, right? When you help someone else and they say, oh my gosh, thank you for that thing that you did for me. That's a really easy way of mattering, right?

This idea of doing something nice for other people seems to be an incredibly quick path to our happiness. And I think one of the reasons is that it's a way of mattering, right? When you help someone else and they say, oh my gosh, thank you for that thing that you did for me. That's a really easy way of mattering, right?

And so I think a lot of the work in the field of happiness science that's been focused on the power of doing nice things for other people, the power of social connection, one of the ways it's taking its effect on happiness is through this mechanism of mattering. By connecting with other people, you start to matter more. By doing nice things for other people, by impacting their day,

And so I think a lot of the work in the field of happiness science that's been focused on the power of doing nice things for other people, the power of social connection, one of the ways it's taking its effect on happiness is through this mechanism of mattering. By connecting with other people, you start to matter more. By doing nice things for other people, by impacting their day,

And so I think a lot of the work in the field of happiness science that's been focused on the power of doing nice things for other people, the power of social connection, one of the ways it's taking its effect on happiness is through this mechanism of mattering. By connecting with other people, you start to matter more. By doing nice things for other people, by impacting their day,