Worst demonstration of American bootstrapping ethos
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“Please, for the love of god, do not go here if you are genuinely experiencing pain from marginalization, persecution or any of the by-products of the deeply broken American systems that keep so many of us in a place of stress and pain. I deeply wanted to wait further into the show’s release to lay out a review, but in listening to the first couple episodes, my sense of the absolute disservice they do by not even mentioning societally systemic or medical realities in order to highlight individual culpability for the very complex thing that is our emotional lived experience means that I have to say something.
Go put your podcast energies into something like ‘The Dream’ or ‘The Hilarious World of Depression’ if you are seeking a nuanced, realistic, sensitive treatment of American emotional experience and all the biological and cultural realities behind whether we are happy or not. This podcast misses most— if not all—opportunities to interweave legitimate science about the benefits of certain daily wellness practices with their focus on shortsighted fallacy that mindset and personal action is the most important factor in improving human happiness. I’ve waited breathlessly for *any* qualifiers in all their interviews and reporting of their very narrowly analyzed data sets, but ultimately you have a group of extraordinarily privileged folks diving into how they can decrease existential angst in their protected, comfortable lives in the face of adversities. Those adversities are real if your standards are at a certain level (which are akin to mine, actually) - but in 2019 in America this is a sadly shortsighted, narrow and frankly grossly irresponsible portrait of our declining national contentment, that turns down any opportunity to have a conversation about the real world outside of Yale University.”
leahu417 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/30/19
More reviews of The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
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“I’m looking forward to following along as the episodes for this podcast come out. It’s hard for me to sit and listen to a whole podcast, but the whole time I listened to the first two episodes, I felt like they were ending too soon. Keep up the good work.”
Kiwibabybean via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/29/19
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“Great first ep looking forward to more!”
Karls07 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
09/24/19
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“So uplifting and inspirational. Makes you think!”
jennablovzzkb via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/25/19
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