Srikumar Rao
Plug into your hard-wired happiness
Srikumar Rao explained that people spend most of their lives learning to be unhappy, even as they strive for happiness. He teaches people how to break free of the "I'd be happy if..." its a mental model and how to embrace your hard-wired happiness.
My impressions with this video was that it was a good way to show that people are always trying to find better happiness, when in reality they have it right there in front of them. Rao explained that people come up with these mental models of the world, like for example people always use the if...than...model than they will be happy. Models are flawed, he says that your actions are within your control, outcome is outside your control, people think of how to define their life, here I am... ,here is where I want to go... , & if I succeed... You want to invest in the process of your life not In the outcome, because your outcome could be totally different of what you wanted to happen, or vise versa. A question he told everyone was to ask yourself " Is this a journey I want to take, does this take me to a place I want to spend my time?" If you do find this, you will find that people you meet, movies you go to, books you read, and places you go everything changes, so begin by focusing on the process and not the outcome...
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
"The Pursuit of Happiness" was 2004's conference theme, TED speakers over many years have continued this quest, and what actually makes us happy.
Sometimes the best way to reach the right answer is to be unafraid of asking the question sideways. Take Jonathan Haidt, who looks to psychology to explain our current political climate.
It's important to step back and consider the engine that creates them: the human mind. How exactly does the brain, a three-pound snarl of electrochemically frantic nervous tissue, create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, or the sense of self, and how reliable is it?
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