Podcast listening event to focus on commitment

The WVU Health Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education is hosting a podcast listening event Tuesday, Dec. 6 from 4-4:50 p.m. in Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Center Room G01 and via Zoom. Join event host Mallory Weaver for The Happiness Lab “You Only Live Once…So Commit.”

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YOLO seems like the perfect rock ‘n’ roll philosophy. You only live once…so do whatever seems right in the moment. Be spontaneous. Quit your job; find a new person to date; and always, always keep your options open.

We all fear getting stuck in the wrong occupation, relationship or home – so shun fully committing to anything. But we’re misguided. The man who coined the term YOLO – the Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart – tells Dr. Laurie Santos in this episode that throwing yourself fully into a life choice is the best way to live our precious life.

Dr. Laurie Santos is a professor of psychology and head of Silliman College at Yale University.