Dr. Laurie Santos

But actually what would make you happier is to spend that equivalent amount of money on a friend.

But actually what would make you happier is to spend that equivalent amount of money on a friend.

Buy a massage for your coworker.

Buy a massage for your coworker.

or donate that money to people in need somewhere around the world.

or donate that money to people in need somewhere around the world.

That's not what our minds predict, but that's what the research really shows.

That's not what our minds predict, but that's what the research really shows.

A second thing that especially the kind of thing that you did can do for happiness, which I think is so important right now, is that what you find is that we often think of hope as something that you have or you don't have, like you're either a hopeful person or not.

A second thing that especially the kind of thing that you did can do for happiness, which I think is so important right now, is that what you find is that we often think of hope as something that you have or you don't have, like you're either a hopeful person or not.

But a lot of the studies show that hope is something that we build through our actions.

But a lot of the studies show that hope is something that we build through our actions.

So if you're feeling hopeless and you take action, you donate money to a cause you care about, you do something to help the crappy thing that's happening in the world, what happens is not just that you do something good for the world, you wind up starting to feel more hopeful because you took action.

So if you're feeling hopeless and you take action, you donate money to a cause you care about, you do something to help the crappy thing that's happening in the world, what happens is not just that you do something good for the world, you wind up starting to feel more hopeful because you took action.

It's this kind of interesting virtuous cycle.

It's this kind of interesting virtuous cycle.

So if you're feeling hopeless about whatever it is that's going on in the world, the way to fix that is to actually do something about that.

So if you're feeling hopeless about whatever it is that's going on in the world, the way to fix that is to actually do something about that.

This is true for lots of things that make us unhappy.

This is true for lots of things that make us unhappy.