Everyday Serendipity | Paul Hannam | TEDxUniversityofBrighton

Paul will talk about appreciating the accidental experiences that grace our lives
Paul has over 30 years of experience in personal development,employee engagement and behavioral change in his roles as author, academic, coach and entrepreneur. He founded and owned a major training and recruitment business, taught at Oxford University and has coached over 10,000 people around the world. He has had 3 books published and his new book, The Wisdom of Groundhog Day, about how to improve your life one day at a time, reached #1 for Self Help on Amazon UK. Paul’s mission is to help people appreciate that they already have everything they need to be happy.
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[@johnwalker3735]

Paul's own story I think gives particular resonance to the powerful message he is communicating here. To be appreciative and grateful for what truly matters to you, and to accept gracefully the challenges we face in our own lives is very important, and that's certainly something I will take away from this video

[@douggodfrey6521]

Being open to the uncertainty of life & hoping to understand it's the journey ,experience vs. the pre - planned destination.

[@rfreespirit5728]

Finding this video is an example of serendipity ! ❤

[@ezshooter4180]

Happiness is a gift we give ourselves. No one will make you happy, except you.

[@Ana-rb7ws]

1. Be resilient. Take responsibility for responding what happens to you. Be more gracious and elegant (in your response). 2. Be more optimistic. Look at what’s good in our lives. Ask yourself: what is good about this? Find the good in everything (resonates with Napoleon Hill’s teachings). 3. Be more appreciative (i.e. be more grateful). Gratitude is the heart and key to happiness. There are only two ways to live your life: either as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is.

[@veridianafelice18]

My favorite vídeo ever! Always coming Back here and listening again and again …❤️🇧🇷

[@vyzzkid]

Now I will watch Ground hog day, I know I'm late to the party. But thanks Paul. Another thing I'll take from this video is that everything that happens to you, is good for you. :)

[@marigold9736]

In Qur'an Allah said if you have patience and are greatful I will give you more". This is how we Muslims look at life..

[@Ana-rb7ws]

Yes, this is true.

[@mayurdongardive614]

Keep looking till you die

[@dcscreenworks]

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.” There is no first hand source of Einstein’s writing or speeches that contains this quote. The first appearance of this quote that I can find is in Living With Nature’s Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White (2006) by Robert E. Hinshaw, p. 62. In this book Hinshaw quotes Gilbert Fowler White’s Journal of France and Germany (1942 - 1944) as the original source of the quote. It is here that Gilbert Fowler White wrote, “As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, ‘There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.’” The most likely source of Gilbert’s for an Einstein quote on miracles would be David Reichenstein’s Die Religion der Gebildeten (1941), which was released a year prior to Gilbert’s Journal. It is here that Reichenstein asks Einstein about Arthur Liebert’s theory that uncertainty and in-determinism in quantum mechanics allows for the possibility of miracles. Einstein replied that he could not accept the argument because it dealt “with a domain in which lawful rationality does not exist. A miracle, however, is an exception from lawfulness; hence, there where lawfulness does not exist, also its exception, i.e., a miracle, cannot exist.” Gilbert Fowler White may have inadvertently invented this Einstein quote based on his understanding of Einstein’s conversation with David Reichenstein above. Knowing Einstein's theories, especially those about quantum mechanics, he would likely have said there are 3 ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, another is as though everything is, and a third is that somethings are miracles and others are not. ie- "0, 1, 01".

[@vm1662]

Thanks Paul! A beautiful message for everyone. Live as though everyday is a miracle :)

[@juliesinclair2191]

Excellent message for everyone to learn in life.

[@maglehammers6138]

I also like that song, that film and that poet.

[@kerryjayne5066]

Thank you.

[@ayindenedlasinthehaystack9540]

thanks for delivering this message so well!

[@FeelGoodWithin]

In India if you follow universe you are called crazy Anyways All genius are called crazy😝😍 My Fav quote is People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are actually the ones who do😝😍💃 Yep Your Happiness depends upon ur Mindset not Money🙏😝😍 if you grateful for everything you will be Happy 😝😍🙏

[@angelicasbestversion3301]

Brilliant insights.

[@steffaniehockley9325]

Love this!!!

[@jerseyrocrarebreed1825]

❤❤

[@parag2145]

Excellent!

[@mercedescampos7305]

😊

[@Alreadygone-qg5qw]

l always get what I want when I want it :) Matreya Fedor

[@vectorequilibrium4493]

Except the life insurance salesman. He punched him out. 😁 Gratitude. 🙏🏻☮️❤️

[@amiami5727]

3:40 ???👀

[@amiami5727]

Yummy 😋

[@bulbulgulgul4931]

Thanks sir. Nice and motivating message

[@peggyharris3815]

Interesting that after 3 years this presentation has only accumulated 12 comments. Maybe it has to do with what people want to hear: law of attraction, manifesting what you want, you create your reality. If you don't talk about how to get what you want...you have no audience.

[@beatricedsouza4649]

Why does Paul look to his right while speaking? It is off-putting as if he is speaking to someone else. Beatrice

[@percypunto]

@beatrice D’souza: It’s probably the monitor where his slides and/or script is on screen so he doesn’t have to turn his back on the audience :)

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[@johnlittleton6644]

Wow this was unconvincing, surprised he was asked.