Dr. Laurie Santos

And we're like, you know, the dickiest of dicks is often the person in our head. Right. You know, it's like, wait, I would never say, you know, that that thing I just said to myself in my head, I would never say that to another human. Why am I talking to myself that way?

And we're like, you know, the dickiest of dicks is often the person in our head. Right. You know, it's like, wait, I would never say, you know, that that thing I just said to myself in my head, I would never say that to another human. Why am I talking to myself that way?

Yeah, I mean, the term positive psychology began when scientist Marley Seligman, who kind of invented the field or thought that the founder of the field, you know, really had this intuition that so much of psychology is about, you know, what he called kind of below baseline, right? Like I'm trying to cure depression. I'm trying to cure anxiety or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, the term positive psychology began when scientist Marley Seligman, who kind of invented the field or thought that the founder of the field, you know, really had this intuition that so much of psychology is about, you know, what he called kind of below baseline, right? Like I'm trying to cure depression. I'm trying to cure anxiety or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, the term positive psychology began when scientist Marley Seligman, who kind of invented the field or thought that the founder of the field, you know, really had this intuition that so much of psychology is about, you know, what he called kind of below baseline, right? Like I'm trying to cure depression. I'm trying to cure anxiety or something like that.

But he realized that we didn't have, as he called it, a good science of kind of going above baseline. You know, there's baseline and then there's feeling like you're flourishing. You know, then there's getting social connection in life, feeling really present, experiencing joy. And so he really christened this name of this field, positive psychology, in order to focus on those things.

But he realized that we didn't have, as he called it, a good science of kind of going above baseline. You know, there's baseline and then there's feeling like you're flourishing. You know, then there's getting social connection in life, feeling really present, experiencing joy. And so he really christened this name of this field, positive psychology, in order to focus on those things.

But he realized that we didn't have, as he called it, a good science of kind of going above baseline. You know, there's baseline and then there's feeling like you're flourishing. You know, then there's getting social connection in life, feeling really present, experiencing joy. And so he really christened this name of this field, positive psychology, in order to focus on those things.

But I think positive psychology gets the wrong rap. I think there's this idea that like, well, you have to only be positive. But, you know, if you look at what this research is really showing, there's a lot of evidence that a real, true, happy life, a successful life, a healthy life involves experiencing negative emotions, allowing those, not running away from them.

But I think positive psychology gets the wrong rap. I think there's this idea that like, well, you have to only be positive. But, you know, if you look at what this research is really showing, there's a lot of evidence that a real, true, happy life, a successful life, a healthy life involves experiencing negative emotions, allowing those, not running away from them.

But I think positive psychology gets the wrong rap. I think there's this idea that like, well, you have to only be positive. But, you know, if you look at what this research is really showing, there's a lot of evidence that a real, true, happy life, a successful life, a healthy life involves experiencing negative emotions, allowing those, not running away from them.

There's lots of evidence suggesting that there are different techniques you can use to navigate those emotions and sort of feel them without getting like destroyed by them. And so I think, you know, when you hear these terms, positive psychology, positivity, they can kind of feel a little cheesy and get a bad rap that it's like positive, positive, positive all the time.

There's lots of evidence suggesting that there are different techniques you can use to navigate those emotions and sort of feel them without getting like destroyed by them. And so I think, you know, when you hear these terms, positive psychology, positivity, they can kind of feel a little cheesy and get a bad rap that it's like positive, positive, positive all the time.

There's lots of evidence suggesting that there are different techniques you can use to navigate those emotions and sort of feel them without getting like destroyed by them. And so I think, you know, when you hear these terms, positive psychology, positivity, they can kind of feel a little cheesy and get a bad rap that it's like positive, positive, positive all the time.

But that's not really when you dig into the field what it's showing. My sense is that, you know, the whole goal is to get to

But that's not really when you dig into the field what it's showing. My sense is that, you know, the whole goal is to get to

But that's not really when you dig into the field what it's showing. My sense is that, you know, the whole goal is to get to

you know this idea of eudaimonia this rich meaningful life and you do that not through you know putting blinders on and being a pollyanna and like you know trying only to experience happy happy happy no matter what you do that by having a full life which is rich with lots of emotions and experiences yeah that's that's such a good point about letting yourself feel those negative emotions but not necessarily like succumbing to them you know not letting them win all the time

you know this idea of eudaimonia this rich meaningful life and you do that not through you know putting blinders on and being a pollyanna and like you know trying only to experience happy happy happy no matter what you do that by having a full life which is rich with lots of emotions and experiences yeah that's that's such a good point about letting yourself feel those negative emotions but not necessarily like succumbing to them you know not letting them win all the time

you know this idea of eudaimonia this rich meaningful life and you do that not through you know putting blinders on and being a pollyanna and like you know trying only to experience happy happy happy no matter what you do that by having a full life which is rich with lots of emotions and experiences yeah that's that's such a good point about letting yourself feel those negative emotions but not necessarily like succumbing to them you know not letting them win all the time