A Life of Happiness And Fulfillment | Prof Rajagopal Raghunathan | Talks at Google

A truly engrossing and enriching talk based on "A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment" by Prof Rajagopal Raghunathan. Prof Raj is a professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Throughout his career he has given a few TED talks, and is the author of the popular book, "If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?". He teaches an online course on happiness, and relies on themes from psychology, behavioral science, decision theory and marketing to explain consumption behavior. He also studies the impact that people’s judgments and decisions have on their own happiness and fulfillment. If you are at all interested in being happier, listen to this talk!
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[@ramanlakhera1955]

The basics elements for leading a happy life as per his study are: 1. Fulfillment of basic needs. 2. MASTERY - in a field. 3.Belonging in your relationships.You have that one person on which you can rely fully. 4. Autonomy - u got to decide what you want. 5. Abundance mindset which is precribed to be most important. Author prescribes abundance mindset as most critical factor.It refers to phenomenon that there is enough for everybody and thinking in win win mindset.

[@shishirverma3942]

Hi Prof Raj I am a ALOHAFer. Liked your video as you have refreshed in an hour what I learnt in the 40 hours Coursera course on Happiness I did three years back and was slowly forgetting. Thanks

[@piyushg24696]

I feel like I've learned all these things either through instances or self-pondering. But this is like all of it summarized in a coherent structured manner

[@SimplyAndy]

Wow. I had done a micro-credit course under him and now he's at Google. One wonderful person he is.

[@sobc2737]

Consistent happiness doesn't not exist. Happiness only exists in moments. For example when you win a lottery, when you get married. Those things come and go. Hence happiness comes and goes. What people should be looking for is perfect peace. Having no inner conflict. That's what people should be seeking. It's beautiful having zero inner conflict. It's like heaven having perfect peace. Perfect peace is consistent and an everyday state of living.

[@user-ib9qt5kf2t]

Very correctly pointed out

[@shivani4550]

great talk..

[@joshuagestures7576]

Thank you Sir

[@suryavasireddy9841]

Great Session

[@karnatipraveen2607]

Very useful and good ..Thank you Sir

[@nabarundeb3889]

4:22 - Happy People lives 11 years longer 8:34 - Time Magazine. Happy mind lit up 15:07 - Higher Level of happiness despiste extending displeasure

[@rhandee14]

Joy > Happiness

[@natarajrangayana]

Tools to happiness!

[@vaibhavsaxena8077]

this is very useful Prof.

[@sintivegabriela6784]

Namasté

[@noway1675]

Hello World ! Could you tell me what's the name of the website?

[@danstern6372]

Theses are google talks from youtube

[@eyesmoving]

one could make a drinking game out of every time he says "ok" but otherwise a straightforward, informative talk.

[@shreyaspadhye7337]

17:29 - didn't he mean to say reflective happiness here?

[@Happysmarts]

Thanks, Shreyas, you are correct--I misspoke there.

[@Merelytemporal]

He misspoke about experienced vs reflective happiness I think

[@Happysmarts]

You're right, Jamie, I did misspeak--good catch!

[@concernedcitizen123]

yet another new-age goolash! Seek stable peace/consciousness (sthithaprajna) with the help of scriptures in original samskrutham &/or Guru.

[@DharmendraRaiMindMap]

Happiness is overrated

[@ObeySilence]

Setting happiness as a goal just creates fake smiles, normative happiness that turns into his opposite in the worst case. Happiness is a side product of setting and achieving pursuable intrinsically motivated goals. This video is so typical for Googles shallow corporate ideology.

[@Jason918114]

I used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and drink a pint of whiskey a day. I am much happier vaping nicotine and drinking a pint of vodka a day. Less hangovers and vape doesn't stink. 😂

[@UBSINGH-pd7fp]

Sorry, I never watched such a DULL & BORING talk on HAPPINESS. 👎👎👎