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Raj Persaud: How to be Happy

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Raj Persaud Reveals the Secret to Happiness

01 min 43 sec

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Raj Persaud believes the "secret to happiness is not to pursue intense happiness, but to pursue mild contentment."
Raj Persaud on the Secret of Happiness: Balance

05 min 06 sec

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Raj Persaud reports psychological findings, which divide happiness into two distinct clusters: the short-lived pleasure of hedonism and the longer lasting cognitive happiness of intellectual satisfaction.
Raj Persaud: The Close Shave Theory of Happiness

04 min 15 sec

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Raj Persaud demonstrates how small margins of success or failure can lead to both great joy and misery.

"What might have been thinking," says Persaud, is "counter factual thinking."
Raj Persaud: Happiness is 'Biologically Wired'

01 min 46 sec

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Raj Persaud says happiness is a reward mechanism based on evolutionary theory and geared towards the survival of our species.
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Anthony69

Posted: 12.07.10, 07:26 AM

I am happy in my misery?... as an "crafts person/artist" I have always strove for perfection... artistic nirvana, you might say... it's always a struggle and I always fail... however, I do sometimes produce artifacts that others (and sometimes myself) find attractive and interesting (although never what I had fully intended)... Interestingly I have found that when I am feeling "happy" I do not have that "drive" to create (therefore feel unhappy that I am not producing anything artistic) with the same intensity as when I am feeling internal strife and emotional discontentment... when I am sad I create... when I create I am content in my misery on a journey of self expression... Hmmmmm, so I am most happy when I am miserable... interesting idea.

vladomilo

Posted: 10.26.10, 04:12 AM

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Posted: 10.26.10, 04:11 AM

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ramilehti

Posted: 08.24.10, 12:38 AM

A good talk. He is wrong about evolution though. Not everything in us has a reason. There are traits in all animals, humans included, that have no specific reason for being in us. They may have had a reason earlier in our evolution, but have ceased to be relevant. Tail bone, hiccup reflex etc. And in that sense there a reason for their existence. But there is no other significance. If a trait is not selected for or against it remains and devolves, but does not disappear. I think that he confuses the different meanings of the word reason.

ladylisa555

Posted: 04.01.09, 11:20 AM

I thoroughly enjoyed Raj's talk! It was very entertaining, informative and provocative. It made me laugh and think, all at the same time - that is impressive. I have since become a fan of this gentleman!

gyerkovich

Posted: 01.21.09, 01:58 AM

I think there are cognitive measures we can take to help keep events and expectations related to life in perspective. This presentation offered a valuable tool via a 'science to happiness' methodology depicting how to find balance aka happiness - it begs the question, why do we do what we do, and how often we do review our requirements and success for happiness.

jdiaz

Posted: 01.21.09, 01:06 AM

Once again, science saying what everybody who isn't mediocre already knew !