Happiness: A Scientific Understanding
What makes us happy? What makes the people we lead happy? Marriage? Money? Children? Some scientific perspectives to consider.
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In this edition, we study the concept of happiness. What makes us happy? What makes the people we lead happy? Marriage? Money? Children? Watch our presenter as he outlines some scientific perspectives to consider:
Dan Gilbert, the author of "Stumbling on Happiness," challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned. (TEDTalk)
Our cultures give us a lot of advice about how to find happiness. Science, however, suggests that much of that advice just isn‘t right. Presented at the WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland.
Enjoy these interesting presentations as we hunker down in the Covid-19 pandemic!
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About Your Leadership Coach:
Daniel Todd Gilbert (born November 5, 1957) is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and is known for his research with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia on affective forecasting. He is the author of the international bestseller Stumbling on Happiness, which has been translated into more than 30 languages and won the 2007 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books. He has also written essays for several newspapers and magazines, hosted a non-fiction television series on PBS, and given three popular TED talks.
Discussion Questions to Consider:
What are some key take-always or “aha,” moments for you from these two talks?
What are some of the concepts shared that you don’t agree with? Why?
What are some of the areas that the speakers addressed that you have not really considered before?
What are some of the insights you are going to share with someone else this next week to help them on their journey at work?