Happiness
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DK: You know I think that there is recognition of the role of
happiness
research in public policy.
People are recognizing that they ought to be thinking of
happiness
when they think of public policy.
It's going to take a while, and people are going to debate whether they want to study experience happiness, or whether they want to study life evaluation, so we need to have that debate fairly soon.
How to enhance
happiness
goes very different ways depending on how you think, and whether you think of the remembering self or you think of the experiencing self.
In the United States, efforts are being made to measure the experience
happiness
of the population.
We have one here on TED and
happiness.
Any case, I hope this has brought you a little joy and happiness, and if you're interested in seeing more cool effects, see me outside.
It's got everything that you'd want a normal soap opera to want: It's got love, joy, happiness, sadness, tears, laughter, lots of deceit, intrigue.
This is a conference on happiness, but even if it wasn't a conference on happiness, would it be right if I said that in some way, shape, fashion or form, you're devoting your entire life to being happy?
In fact,
happiness
is your innate nature.
And invariably, somebody articulates what many of you are thinking, which is: "If
happiness
is my innate nature, how come I am not experiencing it?
And the moment you accepted the universe just as it was, your habitual-wanting self dropped away, and the
happiness
which is your innate nature surfaced, and you felt it.
And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential
happiness
and suffering.
So, for instance the Dalai Lama gets up every morning meditating on compassion, and he thinks that helping other human beings is an integral component of human
happiness.
That's how we know that a smile might mean sadness and a cry might mean happiness, and a stoic, still face might mean that you are angrily plotting the demise of your enemy.
I couldn't just wait passively for
happiness
to come and find me.
So if you came here to talk about how French coffee will spread
happiness
in our brains, that's a go.
If you generalize this, the most favorite TEDTalks are those that feature topics we can connect with, both easily and deeply, such as happiness, our own body, food, emotions.
I mean, there would be an advantage to experiencing our emotions inside, you know, anger or
happiness.
Similarly, social networks are required for the spread of good and valuable things, like love and kindness and
happiness
and altruism and ideas.
Pursuing
happiness.
So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and
happiness.
Why don't we care more about gross national happiness?"
Now, in essence, the king was asking us to consider an alternative definition of success, what has come to be known as GNH, or gross national
happiness.
And he's a very wise man, and he said, "Listen, Bhutan's goal is not to create
happiness.
We create the conditions for
happiness
to occur.
In other words, we create a habitat of happiness."
1954, he wrote a book called "The Real Enjoyment of Living," and he suggested that
happiness
is not about having what you want; instead, it's about wanting what you have.
Do we pursue
happiness
with hostility?
You may have heard, this last fall Nicolas Sarkozy in France announcing the results of an 18-month study by two Nobel economists, focusing on
happiness
and wellness in France.
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