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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · 2025-06-23 · 42 min · 9,015 words

How Good Manners Made Me Happier (with Etiquette Expert William Hanson)

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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. There's a long tradition in audio recording. To test someone's microphone, you ask them what they had for breakfast.

So I put that question to today's guest, William Hanson. I had two poached eggs on some toast. If that sounds a bit elaborate for a random breakfast at home, you haven't heard the half of it. I used a fork and a knife, I put a placemat down, a napkin. We did it relatively formally for a Monday.

Placemats? Napkins? I can't remember the last time I used a cloth napkin for breakfast. I'm not even sure I own any cloth napkins.

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