LAST MEAL with Tom Nash30 Sep 2025

5 Happiness Myths Keeping You Miserable | Laurie Santos' Last Meal (Live at SXSW 2025)

Yale happiness expert Dr. Laurie Santos reveals why everything you think about happiness is wrong - and what actually works.

In this live conversation from SXSW Austin 2025, psychology professor and Happiness Lab podcast host Laurie Santos breaks down the biggest myths keeping you miserable:

1) Why money stops making you happier at $100k (not $10 million)

2) How spending on others beats spending on yourself

3) Why rumination and worrying actually make problems worse

4) How your phone is stealing 30% of your social connections

5) The counterintuitive way thinking about death improves your life

Dr. Laurie Santos is a Yale psychology professor, host of The Happiness Lab podcast, and researcher specialising in human happiness and wellbeing. Santos shares research-backed strategies that actually move the happiness needle, from her "junior faculty lasagna" last meal choice to practical tips for breaking phone addiction.

Key Topics:

* Happiness science and psychology

* Money and materialism myths

* Social connection and loneliness

* Technology's impact on wellbeing

* Mortality and meaning

*Evidence-based happiness strategies

Follow Laurie:

https://www.instagram.com/lauriesantosofficial/

Follow Tom:

https://www.instagram.com/djhookie/

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction at SXSW

5:10 Laurie's Last Meal choice

8:12 Death anxiety and happiness

15:30 Money can buy happiness (Kinda)

22:00 How phones can make us miserable

29:00 The biggest happiness myths

37:00 Why rumination fails

45:00 Personal Deep Dive

#HappinessScience #Yale #Psychology #SXSW #LastMeal #WellbeingResearch

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