Happiness secrets from around the world - with Helen Russell

[@TheJerida]

I've been watching more of the videos on this channel and other channels with similar or related topics. As a Dane I'm curious about how we as a society and as a nation are percieved by others. One thing that doesn't seem to be recognised fully, is the fact that we consider all jobs important. Yes, there are differences in wages, but a general low income gap is a recognition that all tasks have to be handled for the society to function well.

[@runaraytrain8801]

I love Helen

[@kates6793]

Loved this so much I’ve listened twice now ❤️

[@ozsfi]

Finland has now been the happiest country third year in a Row.

[@plainsailingmotivation7864]

So thrilled to discover this online as I wasn't able to attend

[@jorgeromera3861]

Eye-opening speech!

[@jenspetersimonsen4235]

The paradox of lifelong learning. While lifelong learning is, to many, vital to staying mentally fit and curious, thus having great impact on personal happiness, it doesn't correlate much with modern society and it's demand for specialists - work related specialists in particular. Learning can be conducted horizontally and vertically, yielding generalist or specialist knowledge and the latter seems to be in far higher demand than the former. Some societies are better tuned in terms of giving it's people the opportunities for a career change/paradigm shift. There's often a discussion in schools about finding the purpose in life or the one true talent to exploit and refine ... leaving the kids of today in stress over their choice among all the possibilities they face when choosing in a highly competitive society.

[@phillipmarkmengelberg7156]

After their34 hours ,do they get penilty rates eg ,double hourly rate paid after 34 hours?

[@jespna]

I like

[@ajmarr5671]

A New Equation for Happiness from Affective Neuroscience In affective neuroscience, it is well known that behaviors that involve continuous high and positive act/outcome discrepancy (gaming, gambling, creative work) correspond to elevated dopaminergic activity and a feeling of arousal, but not pleasure. However, for many individuals engaging in similar activity, a feeling of pleasure is also reported, but only when their covert musculature is inactive (i.e., a state or rest). Because relaxation activates opioid systems, and tension inhibits them, it is postulated that dopaminergic activity further stimulates opioid activity, but only during resting states. This hypothesis can be easily tested and is described in greater detail below. If correct, it will demonstrate for the first time that elevated and sustained arousal and pleasure, or ‘eudaemonia’ or ‘happiness’ can be induced easily through simple modifications of abstract perceptual properties of behavior that anyone can easily do throughout the day. THE CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT OF POSITIVE AFFECT AFFECT AND MOTIVATION Opioid and dopamine systems represent bundles of neurons or ‘nuclei’ in the mid brain that are respectively responsible for the affective states of pleasure and attentive arousal, and sub-serve the neural processes that govern motivation. OPIOID AND DOPAMINE SYSTEMS ARE ACTIVATED BY DIFFERENT STIMULI EITHER VIRTUAL (COGNITIVE) OR REAL Eating and drinking, having sex, and relaxing or resting all activate opioid systems, whereas the anticipation or experience of positive act-outcome discrepancy (or positive surprises or meaning) activate dopamine systems. OPIOID AND DOPAMINE SYSTEMS CAN CO-ACTIVATE EACH OTHER Taking our pleasures increases our attentive arousal, and increasing our attentive arousal accentuates our pleasure. If these systems are concurrently activated both are accentuated or affectively ‘bootstrapped’, as both pleasure and attentive arousal will be higher due to their synergistic effects. OPIOID AND DOPAMINE SYSTEMS CAN BE CO-ACTIVATED THROUGH THE ARRANGEMENT OF SPECIFIC ACT-OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES OR RESPONSE CONTINGENCIES As characterized by the well documented ‘flow response’ (pp.82-86), consistently applied contingencies that elicit pleasurable resting states and consistent attentive arousal result in self-reports of heightened pleasure and energy. This emotional experience can be easily replicated by simultaneously applied contingencies that elicit rest (mindfulness protocols) and meaning (imminent productive behavior and its uniform positive implications). To achieve complete rest and accentuate positive affect, these contingencies must be applied for periods of at least a half hour or more. Just as one sets meditative sessions to last for a set time period and frequency to be effective, so mindfulness and meaning sessions must be similarly arranged, with cumulative sessions if possible charted to provide proper feedback of efficacy. Finally, the intensity of positive affect will scale to the importance or salience of moment to moment meaningful behavior, with the more meaningful the task the higher the pleasurable affect. IMPLICATIONS Affect is as much an aspect of how information is arranged as what information is, or the abstract rather than normative properties of behavior. It follows that as a positively affective state, happiness is not just a product of what we think, but how we think, and derives not only from our pleasures but also from our incentives. Positive incentives can accentuate those very pleasures that we wish to maximize, and conversely, associated pleasure will increase the ‘appetitive value’ or ‘liking’ of incentives (or in other words, increase the value of productive work), and all sustained by simple choices within our grasp, as is ultimately happiness itself. I offer a more detailed explanation in pp. 47-52, and pp 82-86 of my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing This above book is based on the research of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a preeminent researcher and authority on dopamine, addiction, and motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript. Berridge’s Site sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/ also: Meditation and Rest from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation

[@traver1965]

Hun er bare for dejlig

[@knudplesner]

Ja, og god til at sælge danmark, det får vi brug for til grønne energisystemer ;-)

[@knudplesner]

You do not have to be enemies with your competitors! It is far more fruitful to be friends with your competitors. The one who gets the honor of becoming e.g. Danish champion gets all the help from these friends to become European or World Champion in any sport e.g. cook, cyclist or handball. At work, it makes no sense to compete, it is far more fruitful to ask for help when you need it.

[@jenspetersimonsen4235]

co-op is paramount :-)

[@knudplesner]

Arbejdsglæde: Job satisfaction: enjoying your work, being best at it, getting the great responsibility of it, together with the means and influence to carry it out.

[@SaneDane]

But then there is the non academics...😮