The "Happy Life" Scientist: How To FINALLY Beat Stress, Worry & Uncertainty! Dacher Keltner

Life expectancy's been declining the last few years. How do we reverse that trend? These are the five safest things to do. Dr. Jacker Keltner, a renowned expert in the science of human emotion, discovering ways on how we can improve our happiness. He's also the author of several books, including The Power Paradox. I read just someone touching you can make you live longer and be less stressed. Is that true? Yeah. There are all kinds of findings that speak to this. You have premature babies, they used to just put'em in these little units that warm them. And they would die. And then they figured out they needed skin to skin contact like they need food. And they live. They gain forty seven percent weight gain. You know the deepest craving we have is to be appreciated by other people. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. And if you want others to be happy Practice compassion. If I am kind to you, my actness makes you more kind downstream. And then that person you've helped actually is kinder to another person. And they've proven that. Yeah. So that calma is a very real thing. It's very real. That'll save eight, ten years of life. You've gotta find a few moments just to be kind.

Are we worse people, the richer and more powerful we become. Yeah. So we've actually done experiments, right? You know, it's a movie about a child who has cancer and poorer people show activation of Vegas nerve, which is part of compassion. Welter new people, less activation. The wealthier you are, the more you navigated for serious economic policies that hurt the poor. Jesus. And this is where it gets really worrisome. Uh Could you start by giving me your Professional

Academic resume. Uh wow. Well that It begins early with my parents who were You know very important in my education and my formation. So my dad's a visual artist and my mom taught literature and

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