【词汇大师】幸福的人生不闲聊（2/2）

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身边有的人特别喜欢“small talk”, "small talk"是神马？这跟“幸福”有啥关系？
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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"Tell us what you found exactly."
主持人对话②"Although I guess, maybe in a case like that -- see, the journalist in me says, well, you'd want to maybe say 'experts agree' or 'many say.' ”
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戳节目订阅，掌握节目最新动态。"Because it could have gone either way. If you think about how small talk is defined, it’s defined as social lubricant. People usually engage in it order to socially connect. So from many angles, it could have come out the opposite way, that happy people are those that maybe don’t worry and are happy and as long as they surf on the superficial aspect of life, they should be fine, right? They should be happy. And maybe it’s those deep conversations that get you into those existential troubles and then you end up unhappy. So it could easily have gone the other way, and that’s why we were interested."
"We found two things. The first thing I think is also very important, but other research has already shown that as well. We found that happy participants spend considerably less time alone and considerably more time with others. So the happy life is really a social life. The time spent alone, in the absence of any other better information about a person, is in fact a good proxy of the person’s happiness.
"And when you then look into the kinds of social lives people have, then we found that happy participants had considerably more substantive conversations and considerably fewer small talk. So we found that the happiest participant has twice as many substantive conversations and one-third as much small talk compared to the unhappiest participant. "