How to be happier — according to science!

Chiara Decaroli
7 min readJul 4, 2020

A review of “The science of wellbeing”, a course taught by Laurie Santos at Yale University.

A couple of months ago one of my favourite thinkers and humans, Sam Harris, had a conversation on his podcast with a professor of Psychology at Yale University: Dr. Laurie Santos. She focuses on what we can learn from science about our happiness. The conversation, titled “The Science of Happiness” is linked below:

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Chiara Decaroli

Quantum physics researcher, Yoga teacher and occasional illustrator based in Zurich.