Big Bird is having a rotten day. There is a frown on his beak; his head is hanging down. He had been so excited to roller-skate around Sesame Street, but the rain ruined his plans. “I don’t like this feeling. I want it to go away,” he says, before naively suggesting that the solution is to wish for the rain to stop.
Luckily, he has a great new friend to help him deal with this feeling – Dr Laurie Santos, the professor behind Yale’s happiness course, the most popular course in the college’s history. She is also the host of the Happiness Lab podcast that Big Bird has joined her on “Big feelings like disappointment don’t go away quickly,” she tells him. “But there are things we can do … ”
