13min 20sec clip - Harvard Professor Answers Happiness Questions From Twitte

52sec @LSEThinks clip - How does #competition in society limit our #happiness ?

11min 14sec #DUST clip - Regulation

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"Regulation" by Ryan Patch

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6min 42sec @RSAEvents clip - The Four Styles of Self #Motivation with Gretchen Rubin

Text from you tube "People seem to fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels, but which one are you?!  Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin believes that using the Four Tendencies will help shine a spotlight on hidden patterns in our behaviour in a way that can allow us to be happier, healthier, more productive and more creative.

52s @wef clip - The 10 #happiest #countries in the world

10 Hours Of Relaxing Planet #Earth II #Desert #Sounds - Earth Unplugged

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10 Hours Of Relaxing #Planet #Earth II #Island Sounds - Earth Unplugged

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Sit back, relax and enjoy the third in our series of Planet Earth II visual soundscapes. As part of the Real Happiness Project we want to take you on a journey over some of the most rugged islandscapes on earth. as you glide over where land meets ocean immerse yourself in this vivid habitat. All footage used was filmed by the Planet Earth II camera teams whilst out on location.

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10 Hours Of Relaxing Planet #Earth II #Mountain #Sounds - Earth Unplugged

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Sit back, relax and enjoy the fourth in our series of Planet Earth II visual soundscapes. As part of the Real Happiness Project we want to take you on a journey through some of the most stunning mountainscapes on earth. Fly above the peaks and immerse yourself in this elevated, sky-kissing habitat. All footage used was filmed by the Planet Earth II camera teams whilst out on location.

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6min 51sec @TheRSA clip - An #Algorithm for #Happiness with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google [X], having applied his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposed an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. He essentially ‘solved’ for happy.

4min 35sec @TEDEd animated clip - Would winning the lottery make you happier? - Raj Raghunathan explains #hedonic #adaptation

Imagine winning a multi-million dollar lottery tomorrow. If you’re like many of us, you’d be ecstatic, unable to believe your good luck. But would that joy still be there a few years later? Raj Raghunathan describes a phenomenon called hedonic adaptation, which may shed light on the answer.

the meaning of #happiness changes every 5 to 10 years - a quick 5min guide

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happiness

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happiness

this video can be found here and is alastair campbell delivering birmingham university's 2011 baggs memorial lecture on tuesday 12 july.  in summary what he said is:

- i don’t believe governments can make people happy in the way that families and communities can but they can and they should think about creating the conditions so to do. 


- it is interesting that though we have grown much wealthier as a country and, most of us, as individuals, we are not happier. 


- poverty can certainly cause unhappiness, but it does not automatically follow wealth causes happiness. 


- the New Economics Foundation (nef) brought together research from 400 scientists worldwide to come up with the equivalent of “5 a day” for well-being. they are:

• connect with the people around you
• be active
• take notice – be curious and aware of the world around you
• keep learning – try something new
• give – do something nice for a friend or a stranger

- much of our media, most of the time, is now slavishly dedicated to making people feel jealous of others, blaming others for their problems, hating others for their actions and attitudes. 

- the relentless negativity is a relatively new thing. the positive to negative ratio in our national press has gone from 3-1 to 1-18 in three decades.  


- i have one big suggestion for a nice base for happiness – focus more on your own life and experience and put the media largely to one side. there came a day when I genuinely ceased to care what the media said about me. it was liberating. it has helped my happiness.

- for me happiness is not about the good moments – though they can build towards it -  but about fulfilment. 


- i think the pursuit of those things that many people may think make them happy – fame, money, alcohol, drugs, quick hit relationships – are less likely to make people happy than give them a sense of elation the endurance of which is all too elusive.

 - any sense of happiness requires a sense of fulfilment and any fulfilment, worthwhile fulfilment, requires struggle. it doesn’t come easy.

a happy designer

in this ted video stefan sagmeister says  - on the subject of what keeps us happy  - that his research suggests:


- that climate has no influence;
- income has very little;
- ethnicity doesn't make a difference;
- nor physical attractiveness;
- nor age;
- nor health (where problems are manageable);


but that having several meaningful friendships does makes a difference to our happiness

in passing he also points out how our unconscious mind affects the big decisions we make

 how else could it be explained that - compared with what would be expected statistically using usa data - that:

- more men called george live in georgia;

- more men called denis become dentists;

- more women called paula marry men called paul

he then shares what makes him happy as a designer - which is

1) doing more of the kind of stuff he likes to do

2) thinking without pressure;

3) travelling to places;

4) not being stuck behind a computer screen all day; 

5) working on projects that matter to me;

6) having things that come back from the printer well;

7) working on projects that have a visible impact;

8) being involved in a project where 50% is new to me.

He concludes by saying that keeping a diary supports personal development

talking to others on the train and asking ......

why are you here?
what motivates you more - fear or love? and why?
do you believe in government?
 - do you believe they tell the truth?
 - do you think they have your best interests at heart?
what does freedom mean to you?
what makes you happy in life?
what is the meaning of life?










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measuring happiness

this video of an rsa event has some useful stuff


jim clifton explains how they asked leaders what they need to know to do their job better - and from that devised 100 questions that if asked pretty much allow us to know their state of mind


they then built consistent sampling frames through 150 countries then asked the questions once a year - at the end they have a hunch what wellbeing, happiness, behavioural economics is about to link how people are thinking to how people are transacting


so what is the world thinking?  - gross simplification but - I want a good job (used to be peace, freedom, family). job creation is new currency of world leaders.  2nd thing is health care




jim harter - what is wellbeing? - evaluating (stays fairly constant) and experience (varies - up in holidays, down on mondays). so what important to the evaluating and experience measures - basic needs, good jobs, health, housing, income (more evaluation), learning/autonomy (more experience).  


in uk key findings - less than 50% thriving, work environment is a weakness, 46% say their community is getting better as a place to live, different incomes have similar health and clean water access but different perceptions of their communities and safety, 1 in4 are obese




ben leedle - well being is bigger than physical health - financial, social, career, emotional, physical, community - key is to understand 1st order impacts between conditions and behaviours to put together a simulation model so eventually can assess impact of various actions  (e.g obesity is driving over a 1/3rd of the modelled productivity loss)




q&a at the end 
- power of the data can help us choose, relationships between factors not always obvious
- need to ask children also
- will data become a game changer itself?
- countries are making different choices (simplistic e.g. - scandanavian use wealth to see more of each, anglo- saxon use to escape each other)
- what saying summary - engaged worker is key (25% are actively disengaged), look at range of factors affecting happiness