Santos, a Yale professor, oversaw over 500 students during the pandemic, ran a university lab, and led a podcast, she said in a recent episode. But there was some irony to her high stress levels: Santos is also known as a "happiness expert." In new episodes of her podcast, Santos tackles how she "flunks her own class," from being a perfectionist to fearing boredom. In the episode on stress, she spoke to David S. Yeager, a psychology professor at UT Austin. Advertisement"That was really profound for me, because stress really felt like it's just this biological phenomenon," Santos said.

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