Dr. Laurie Santos

Accept and regulate the negative situations and negative emotions in your life.

Accept and regulate the negative situations and negative emotions in your life.

The flavor of these and what the science shows is that if you take time to engage in these kinds of rewirements, you'll wind up feeling significantly happier.

The flavor of these and what the science shows is that if you take time to engage in these kinds of rewirements, you'll wind up feeling significantly happier.

And so we put them in the syllabus for my students.

And so we put them in the syllabus for my students.

They're given these homework rewirement activities that they're supposed to do throughout the semester.

They're given these homework rewirement activities that they're supposed to do throughout the semester.

For sure, for my Type A Yale students, and I'm guessing for the listeners of this podcast, it's a lot about rewiring your thought patterns.

For sure, for my Type A Yale students, and I'm guessing for the listeners of this podcast, it's a lot about rewiring your thought patterns.

The biggest one is our perfectionism and our self-criticism.

The biggest one is our perfectionism and our self-criticism.

I think we have this mistaken, like, drill sergeant theory of our brains where, like, if I just scream at myself all the time and really push myself and enact these completely over-the-top standards, then I'll just do better in life, right?

I think we have this mistaken, like, drill sergeant theory of our brains where, like, if I just scream at myself all the time and really push myself and enact these completely over-the-top standards, then I'll just do better in life, right?

I think we know that that's not necessarily going to make us feel good, but I think we think it's going to make us perform better.

I think we know that that's not necessarily going to make us feel good, but I think we think it's going to make us perform better.

But research by folks like Kristen Neff and others have gone out and studied this, and they find, nope, lo and behold, doesn't make you perform better.

But research by folks like Kristen Neff and others have gone out and studied this, and they find, nope, lo and behold, doesn't make you perform better.

You actually procrastinate more.

You actually procrastinate more.