Maddie starts us off talking about 'The Science of WellBeing', a popular course designed by Professor Laurie Santos that was originally offered at Yale and is now free to anybody online through Coursera (see link below). From there we launch off on a number of tangents, including changing your Happiness Set Point, what to do when we feel like maybe we shouldn’t be happy, how to handle the contagion of negativity and more. We mention a number of resources and here are the promised links:

Check out The Science of Well Being here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being/

Check out Marci Shimoff’s Living in the Miracle Zone podcast,full of interviews with positive people here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCmNObyOx_1ADDQ1u4Rl93WjFqMiDvNC0&si=MQKbr8pWOtCoQDBN or take a look at her book, Happy For No Reason here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/happy-for-no-reason-7-steps-to-being-happy-from-the-inside-out-carol-kline/497a5b2aa46b219e?ean=9781416547730

The other book Kerry mentions is The Happiness Advantageby Shawn Achor: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-happiness-advantage-how-a-positive-brain-fuels-success-in-work-and-life-shawn-achor/fc502babc59db48a?ean=9780307591555

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