Are Kids Today Really Worse Off?
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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. If you're a fan of my work or of this podcast, you've probably heard the story of how I got interested in happiness research in the first place. If not, here's a very quick version.
Back in 2018, I was an Ivy League psychology professor, minding my own business, when I started noticing that something was changing on college campuses. The students I saw in my classes day after day, year after year. Over time they seemed Different. They were more stressed.
Less joyful, more overwhelmed. Less happy, more depressed. Way less resilient. and way more anxious. I got so worried about this generation of college students that I decided to drop everything and fully retrain in the science of happiness just so I could help them.
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