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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · 2026-02-02 · 47 min · 9,332 words

How to Design a More Meaningful Life (with Dave Evans and Bill Burnett)

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Pushkin. Let's be real for a second. The world feels pretty overwhelming right now. Lots of us are feeling exhausted and despondent. We spend our days grinding at work.

and then trying to zone out when we get out of work, which often means scrolling endlessly just to unwind. And if that sounds familiar, you might be wondering quietly to yourself, is this all there is? How do I feel better when the world feels so bleh? What if there was a way to hit the reset button? on how you experience life, to see the world with fresh eyes, like you did as a child, when everything felt alive, full of possibility, and somehow a little magical.

The mere fact that anything exists at all is astonishing. So just take a longer, deeper look into almost anything, and some wondrousness might be available to you. Well in today's episode, the last one in our series on how to get unstuck in 2026, we'll learn that This mindset can be within reach. In fact, today's two guests will share their tips for how to design it.

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