Dr. Laurie Santos

It causes positive emotions.

It causes positive emotions.

You don't experience it as frustrating or anxiety-provoking or sad, right?

You don't experience it as frustrating or anxiety-provoking or sad, right?

But I think that pleasure on its own might miss out on the thinking your life is good.

But I think that pleasure on its own might miss out on the thinking your life is good.

Obviously, you probably think your life is going better if you have lots of pleasure, but if you owe

Obviously, you probably think your life is going better if you have lots of pleasure, but if you owe

only have pleasure.

only have pleasure.

You know, if you don't have any challenges or interesting things you're pushing yourself towards, then you're probably not going to wind up thinking your life is going really well.

You know, if you don't have any challenges or interesting things you're pushing yourself towards, then you're probably not going to wind up thinking your life is going really well.

So I think we need to not just purely go for pleasure.

So I think we need to not just purely go for pleasure.

We definitely want a life filled with lots of pleasure, but pleasure-seeking alone might not lead to the most flourishing of lives.

We definitely want a life filled with lots of pleasure, but pleasure-seeking alone might not lead to the most flourishing of lives.

Yeah, we know a lot of this from this World Happiness Report that comes out each year in March, right, where they kind of rank different countries.

Yeah, we know a lot of this from this World Happiness Report that comes out each year in March, right, where they kind of rank different countries.

And so that's where the Scandinavian countries always kill it.

And so that's where the Scandinavian countries always kill it.