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Welcome to Billboard Happiness! We're Dr. Jerome Burt and Laura Scholes Baedeker, and we're here to take the best advice on happiness and health from the smartest people and turn that advice into little nuggets of wisdom your kid will listen to and hopefully learn from! Jerome's a clinical psychologist in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Laura Scholes is a copywriter and brand consultant in Oakland, California. Jerome and Laura have been best friends since high school, and now that Laura has an 11-year-old daughter, they've come together to give her—and your own kid!—the shortcut to the good life. We're so happy to meet you!Have a topic or question you'd like Jerome & Laura to talk about on Billboard Happiness? Send us an email—or even better: leave us a voicemail so we can use your question on the air! hello@billboardhappiness.com or 510-269-1944
Billboard Happiness
Episode 17: A lesson from Mitch Prinstein's book, Popular
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Laura Scholes Baedeker & Jerome Burt
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Season 1
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Episode 17
This week, Laura & Jerome talk about Mitch Prinstein's book, Popular: Why being liked is the secret to greater success and happiness.
This episode hits really close to home for Laura, because as every parent of a middle schooler knows that this is the time when kids really start "keeping score." And of course with social media, keeping score is real (and doesn't even need the quotation marks!).
Prinstein's basic premise is that kids (and people) should strive for likeability, not popularity, if they want to live happier, healthier lives for the long run. Fascinating topic, great advice from Dr. Jerome.
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Popular by Mitch Prinstein