Sonja Lyubomirsky
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1,409 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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I started to ask her more questions and sort of to listen more and then to follow up too, right?
So maybe follow up maybe a week later, a month later, say, hey, I remember when you told me you were interested in that.
You know, what is happening there?
You know, sort of to follow up because then she sees that I remember the things that really matter to her and to make her feel loved first.
Yeah, you know, it did.
Now, it didn't have some kind of immediate miraculous, you know, result, but it led her to open up a little bit more to me.
It led her to ask me more questions about me, which is, you know, not as common.
You know, children often don't ask their parents a lot of questions.
It made me think like, oh, I should go home.
Call my mom and ask her more questions.
Maybe we should all do this after this episode.
Call your parents and ask them questions about their inner lives or about their childhoods, about what really matters to them.
And also it sort of led us to be more affectionate with each other.
I'm a huge fan of physical touch.
It's like I just feel so loved when we're cuddling.
And so we've been cuddling a lot more lately.
I'm a happiness scientist, and I've been a happiness scientist for 36 years.
For my entire professional career, I've been obsessed with learning the secrets to being a happy person, with trying to answer the question, can anyone become happier?
Now, how do we even study something like that?
Well, in 1998, my lab pioneered what we call happiness interventions.
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