Ingrid Fetell Lee

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How to Be a Better Human · Summer Fridays: How to be more joyful (w/ Ingrid Fetell Lee) (re-release) · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

takes into account a range of different factors.

So how we feel about our health and our work, whether we have a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives, how connected we feel to other people, whereas joy is much simpler and more immediate.

So when psychologists use the word joy, what they generally mean is an intense momentary experience of positive emotion.

And this is something that we can measure through direct physical expressions, things like smiling and laughter, feeling of wanting to jump up and down,

You know, you watch a kid and if they're in a moment of joy, you know, because they don't mask it.

They don't hide it.

It's this very physical, visceral feeling.

And so to me, I think this is a really powerful distinction because we spend a lot of our time pursuing happiness, you know, trying to figure out what is the precise combination of things to put into place in our lives that's going to create happiness.

that perfect state of happiness, that kind of happily ever after from the fairy tales.

And yet these little moments of joy are happening all the time.

They're always available to us.

And when we start to gather them up, lots of positive changes start to happen in our lives.

I love that you brought this up because I think this is such a deep cultural bias that we have, right?

That joy is...

for children or we associate it with childhood and therefore it must be juvenile.

And the idea that we can retain joy as we age throughout our whole lives, it often isn't modeled for us, right?

So especially I would say for women, a lot of women don't have a model of a mother figure or grandmother figure who took care of their own joy, who did things for themselves.

What adult joy has become in our culture has often become equated with consumption for both genders.

I think a lot of us have seen joy be pushed off to the sort of edges of our lives.

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