Why Work Feels So Hard — And What to Do About It

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody, today we've got a special episode where my friend Dr. Lori Santos interviews me about stress, sleep, and sanity at work. We talk about how I've tried and often failed to be a halfway decent boss, what I learned about insomnia during some rough years in my career, and why I have come to see psychological safety as perhaps the single most underrated management skill on the planet.

This conversation gets both personal and very practical. And I should tell you that it first appeared on Lori's podcast, which is called The Happiness Lab with Dr. Lori Santos. You may know Lori.

She's a Yale professor who teaches one of the most popular courses in the school's history on the science of happiness and well-being. She's also very good at turning psychological research into stuff that you can actually use in your messy life. If you enjoy this conversation, which I hope you do, you should subscribe to Lori's show. It's great, and so is she. And I can say this from personal experience, having spent a bunch of time with her.

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