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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · 2026-10-19 · 53 min · 10,140 words

Why Happiness Experts Still Struggle to Be Happy with Dr. Ethan Kross

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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. spent years studying the science of happiness. And on this show, I've talked to countless experts about the things we can all do to feel better.

But here's something I don't talk about quite as often. The times when I struggle to put that advice into practice myself. And it turns out I'm not the only happiness expert who has this problem. In today's episode, in our new series of live podcast conversations. I'm joined by my good friend, the psychologist Ethan Cross.

Ethan studies how we manage our thoughts and emotions. And why our own minds can sometimes make that harder than it needs to be. Ethan and I sat down together at the World Happiness Summit at South by Southwest. And we got real about the things that even happiness experts like us get wrong. And also how you can learn from our mistakes.

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