Dr. Laurie Santos

It makes you a better team member at work because if you're compassionate with yourself, then it's really easy to be compassionate and problem solving mindset and coach mindset with your employees and your other teammates at work.

It makes you a better team member at work because if you're compassionate with yourself, then it's really easy to be compassionate and problem solving mindset and coach mindset with your employees and your other teammates at work.

It also is super helpful in relationships.

It also is super helpful in relationships.

It's a way to be nicer to your kids and your spouse.

It's a way to be nicer to your kids and your spouse.

And you just feel better, which we know also helps people perform better.

And you just feel better, which we know also helps people perform better.

So that's the biggest one for I think my students and my guests is a lot of the folks listening.

So that's the biggest one for I think my students and my guests is a lot of the folks listening.

If you're prone to like hustle, hustle, hustle, never give yourself a break, perfectionism at all costs.

If you're prone to like hustle, hustle, hustle, never give yourself a break, perfectionism at all costs.

If you can just lighten up and just try to talk to yourself more like a friend, all the studies show that you'll of course feel better, but maybe more surprisingly, you'll probably perform better too.

If you can just lighten up and just try to talk to yourself more like a friend, all the studies show that you'll of course feel better, but maybe more surprisingly, you'll probably perform better too.

Yeah, I think this is another bias that we have, that our happiness is all about us.

Yeah, I think this is another bias that we have, that our happiness is all about us.

It's like a treat yourself bias, that what I want is me, me, me, my salary, my good things in life, my positive emotion.

It's like a treat yourself bias, that what I want is me, me, me, my salary, my good things in life, my positive emotion.

But all the studies show that the people who self-report being happiest are the people who are the most other-oriented.

But all the studies show that the people who self-report being happiest are the people who are the most other-oriented.