Dr. Laurie Santos

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.

I think Norway is the current leader.

I think Norway is the current leader.

It's usually Norway or Denmark or something.

It's usually Norway or Denmark or something.

And that raises the question of what are they doing differently?

And that raises the question of what are they doing differently?

And I think there's two things.

And I think there's two things.

One is they have different structural features of their culture that make things easier.

One is they have different structural features of their culture that make things easier.