The secret to happiness

[@keirarose4765]

a few weeks ago i started acting happy which made the people around me happier. and when my peers are happy it comes off on me, endless cycle of positivity

[@elboertjie]

Skip to 14:10 to find the 'key' to what he says happiness is.

[@janscott602]

While I don't have the science to back it up I believe that gratitude, humility and a sense of humour go a long way to making one happy. But that could just be my genes talking.

[@comptonopolis]

Robin Williams had a sense of humour.

[@BeyondtheTempleVideos]

They do. Gratitude stops us being dissatisfied and constantly chasing after things we think will make us happy

[@thisisntallowed9560]

I believe gratitude yes, but only towards things you should feel grateful for. Don't beat yourself up cause you don't feel gratitude cause that makes you less happy, I'd say focus more on positive things. Humility, what is humility? Here's google's answer to this ''a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness'' I don't believe humility makes people happy, it makes them believe that they are bad if they have a high esteem of themselves. The key is that you can still recognize your own value and still recognize other's value, at the same time. Or I have another answer to this. Imagine a boy winning a run competition thinkin he's better than everyone. He looks at his friend who's in wheelchair and he think that he's better than that person. We all have different circumstances in our life which make us unable to achieve the same goal, which makes no one better than anyone. Everyone's equal. Sense of humor, yes, maybe.

[@renehenriksen1735]

No science can ever tell you to really live and really feel that you do. ;)

[@michaelshannon9169]

Gratitude is the 'Beggars Mindset'.

[@all1videoproductions]

it all begins with loving yourself. always hold on to a strong sense of self-love

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

As long as you know happiness you'll know unhappiness. One cannot survive without the other. Your demand for happiness it making you unhappy. If you are fortunate enough to reach point where you really don't know what happiness is then you'll never know unhappiness.

[@muditjain8784]

The real Guru, saying it like it is

[@lovemecom3832]

The secret to happiness is to live life to the fullest. Don't mind other's, just keep doing things that could make you happy.

[@GerardoBlancoDean]

Thank you very much. I think we have been working hard since birth to be happy, and enjoy the happiness that little things give us.

[@happierdaybyday-dominiksku7460]

+Gerardo Blanco Hi Gerado, if you are interested in happiness topics I think my videos can bring you a value in to your life especially happiness psychology lessons I am producing :-)

[@JosePerez-tk8dc]

Hey I'm nothing like my parents they stress And anger all the time I was raised with abuse and bullying but I've always wondered to why I haven't been able to hate life My mom expects something else from me. Always focusing on money I'm different I plan on being a social activist I'm completely different than my parents I come from Guatemala in Central America and its very very violent. Happiness is what you make of it This guy can't tell you how to get it You have to go on your own journey on life and find it out yourself Look for it until you feel right. I respect this guy Not insulting him Bytheway

[@djangounchained2562]

+Jose Perez I know what you mean man.

[@mabeklvista]

Jose Perez Do what you wanna do, don't worry about your parents. they just want you to have a good live but having a good life is different for Everyone. I made a personal view about happiness in a video, if you want to check it out its on my channel.

[@AAKRITIANANDOfficial]

Happiness is a state of mind😊

[@lisarochester2978]

My husband is happy most days, and he's been through many challenging events.

[@DoctorJanakaWannaku]

8:42 see some action..someone is having fun

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

Naughty boy. Smooth shaved. I'm envious.

[@rastaballet]

Actually happiness is not something you can be or have. The human being experiences many emotions at many times for many reasons. Happiness is simply one of them. What most people refer to as happiness is really satisfaction. Primarily satisfaction with oneself. True and complete satisfaction should be the goal, and yes. it is very hard to obtain. So many of us fake it, often with trying to be happy. It really doesn't work. The simple rule is this: less regrets = more satisfaction, no regrets = complete satisfaction. It's unfortunate that we rely so much on words to communicate. Words are the bane of communication. They are limited by time, education, culture, age, experience, etc. It's simply too limiting, and, as such, it is very hard to communicate, because even the word satisfaction is open to so many interpretations and translations. Like love, which we wrongly believe is an emotion that we can give or receive, when in fact it is part of a state of being. You can either have love in you or not. Choose love. It actually will set you free. Happy Holidays!

[@tridentjohn]

Great work. I have observed that investing or working at making people happy in the workplace does not help make them more productive. However, investing or working at helping or making them more productive does make them happier. Earning brings self esteem and reduces emotional dependence on approval or being liked. It's the genius of the Declaration of Independence illuminating the Pursuit of Happiness, the pursuit brings the happiness.

[@LearnEnglishESL]

"Man is, in reality, a spiritual being, and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy." - Abdu’l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 24.

[@albertgrimsley50]

If we take the time to examine our feelings - gratitude certainly brings happiness - gratitude for accomplishments is high on that list - the bigger the challenge the greater the rewards - yet we can celebrate the small wins on the path to the big wins and thus win frequently. I am most grateful when I help others achieve their goals - that is why I do what I do.

[@summondadrummin2868]

Being free to enterprise, exchanging value, earned success and being of service are indeed great wisdoms. One significant place our system of enterprise goes off the rails though is by allowing money to become a God. Money a symbolic tool, a measure of value is not what is of real value but in our ignorance we have allowed the system to be structured as if it is real value. Value added is countered by value subtracted and much of finance is likely the latter. If we as a society dont have a very good idea what is of real value or real wealth (what creates real happiness?)and our mal adjusted system points us in the wrong direction $$$$$... we end up creating illth rather than wealth....Food for thought.Good talk thanks Arthur!

[@earthmoon003]

Felt like this started off kinda good but then it went on huge tangent. What didn't make sense to me is that if 89% of people are currently satisfied with work then why act like that's the cause of where people's unhappiness comes from. He decided to focus on that as if that is the key. Yeah free market and entrepreneurship is all good, but how about we address the barriers to that for people who aren't in the middle or upper class. The key to happiness does seem to be finding meaning in your life (not necessarily your job), doing things to help others, and having good relationships with family and friends. So many people have no friends, or friends who aren't really that supportive. Others have family that they don't get along with and are in toxic marriages. Many are too busy trying to survive financially that we feel like we don't have time or the ability to help others. So although I agree with his four things that build happiness, I don't agree with him focusing on the work part. That seems the least relevant for most people in terms of what we can control.

[@1119jblack]

Over my life I've been generally happy but a few years ago I was in a funk. In my 40's. Unhappy with life. I had an internal monologue. I could be happy if I wanted to be. But I don't want to be. I deserve to be unhappy because of my life. This is really psychotic thinking. I realized if I want to be happy all I need to do is choose to be happy. So that's what I did. I just chose to be happy. Now I have the best life possible, and all I changed was my perspective.

[@LearnEnglishESL]

What % is spiritual? "..man’s supreme honor and real happiness lie in self-respect, in high resolves and noble purposes, in integrity and moral quality, in immaculacy of mind." ~ Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization

[@TheMichaelStott]

i believe there is a great irony in Happiness. We spend so much time believing that Happiness is the norm and other emotions when we feel them are abnormal that we will expend so much time and energy trying to be happy that eventually we get stressed out, create more anxiety and become depressed. Life isn't always happy, it doesn't always go your way and the the biggest happy killer is when someone's life's ends. We get upset, we get frustrated, we get angry. We get Sad, we become overwhelmed, we get tired both emotionally and physically but we try so hard to put on that brave face and say we are happy. wouldn't things turn around a bit at work if asked are you happy with your job you say "not really and here's why" but instead we will choose to "suck it up" and maybe when nothing is done quit to find that happiness we were longing for? most people at 40+ are starting to go through a life phase where they have become comfortable and more likely really good at what they do. They have achieved great deal of things but it's also a time where self reflection comes into play "have I done enough?, could I have done better?" which leads us to think we haven't so we become unhappy and because being unhappy is "Not Normal" we start to think of the what if's. I'm 40 years old now but in 2012 I was medically discharged from a very happy career in the medical corps in the Army. suddenly i was faced with one of those life changing events but it wasn't what I wanted. Many people go through being retrenched, fired what about them? "Suck it up and put on a brave, happy face" if you look at that from reality; what happened was a gut wrenching, soul crushing event. the emotion of sadness allows us to stop, take note of the situation because when you're sad you don't feel like doing anything, why would we have that emotion? so our body and mind can stop us from jumping into something else too quickly. it gives us some time to recharge and hopefully focus us towards things that do matter more in the long run. bit like a failed relationship and the grief a person goes through "oh there's plenty more fish in the sea, gotta get back on the horse etc" that's where we can get a Re-bound affect happen. great you just fell into a relationship to gain gratification that you moved on but it doesn't last. You gained some resilience to breaking up with people but that other person goes through the same process you did. I believe that the Secret to Happiness is that it is not the only emotion you have that can bring you benefits. I understand though that if you are Sad for too long this maybe Depression or if you're too easily angered at many things there maybe problems but in those cases, professionals can help guide you through that, just that we don't always learn the best parts of us from our happiest moments. Instant gratification is the new happiness trap and I agree that hard (but smart and realistic)work is much better for the person but sometimes that means you are not going to be happy about what you have to do or give up and being mindful of the other feelings you will go through will most certainly mitigate the risks of giving up.

[@OwenReefin]

I just love this video. I could watch it over and over again.

[@TeresaProctor1230]

This is so typical, faith, family, community and work really. What about self acceptance, what about love, what about loving yourself without attachment. Attachment is so strong here. Faith, generally come with separation and judgment, families, communities and work situations are entrenched in old wounds, patterns and fear, judgment, jealousy, guilt.... When you truly step into your own self accept, you no longer base your happiness on outside factors and you naturally move in a state of being of happiness. Faith, family, community and work can encourage your happiness, but they can not provide you with self acceptance, unconditional love, freedom, peace of mind,or happiness,etc., that is an inside job.

[@acajudi100]

Treating others, the way you want to be treated is happiness, and avoid all negative demons. I always packed up my stuff, labeled the container with a number, and used index cards to write down the stuff in the container. I paid to have my apartment of almost 24 years emptied, Since age 15, I have done written, audio and video journaling, and I am now in my 81st year. I wear Hawaiian shirts, dark pants od black dresses no underwear since retirement. lol It is70% less expensive living in Queretaro, safer and cooler. Karma never loses an address, and you will reap what you sow.

[@shyaaammeneen63]

Excellent talk. Meditation is also a fantastic way to find inner peace of mind and happiness because a person reaches a state of mind where nothing external disturbs him..

[@SloveintzWend]

Just have low expectations. That's the secret.

[@toffeetarfa8285]

wow i'm really lucky to watch this video , one of the best ever !

[@AEI]

Think winning the lottery will make you happy? Think again. Find out the secret to happiness: The secret to happiness #happiness

[@hartatipoh7870]

+American Enterprise Institute hey ,if anyone else trying to find out cosmic ordering guide try Jadonite Cosmic Ordering Buddy (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my m8 got great success with it.

[@zemorph42]

Winning the lottery would help.

[@jennmonson1712]

I'd love to send this to my husband that just ran away from his family after 20 years. He said he is not happy. I'm sad for his foolish decision to dump what we have built. for???? not sure what he is going for.. I love this video, I agree with having all four of these. Good luck to the soon to be divorced man that is running!! One day you will get tired and you will be wondering where it is you can rest your head.

[@creature09]

🤣

[@trevbeats77]

Thank you, mind lifting. My faith in me has increased.

[@theGNERALJohn]

The secret to happiness is this: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son (Jesus), that whoever believes in him shall not perish (go to hell) but have eternal life (go to heaven)." - John 3:16

[@pcwhizmail]

Not all Christians are happy. So believing in Christ doesn't guarantee happiness.

[@BroJo333]

How can Christians or the God they believe be happy that most of the population is going to this place they call hell, since most people ARE NOT Christian ?

[@jareesanton]

ThirdProverb Let me answer this question as one who is an advocate for God. I will begin by first asking a question. Does injustice, corruption, violence, hatred and like social ills offend and sadden most decent people to the core of their being? Deliberate atrocities horribly abound and permeate this world. God is love. The attributes of his love and character are grace, mercy, kindness, patience, truth, wisdom, benevolence, justice and so on. Man is a free moral agent and is free to choose right or wrong, to build or destroy. God's heart is broken by the choices that we as Man (male and female) make, but he also understands that we are not sinners because we sin, but we sin because are sinners. We did not chose this, but were made sinners because of the sin of one man, Adam. This original Sin caused a root condition of selfishness and self interest in Man. We often times call it human nature, self preservation, or personal preference, the bible calls it the flesh. We tend to chose self interest often without regards to the rights or well being of others, seeking to be righteous in our own eyes. Adam chose the knowledge of good and evil over innocence. With this knowledge he could now chose to do good or evil. The problem with this is the compulsion or temptation we all have to chose evil in order to gratify self. We have all had a bite of this apple of when we want to do right we do the wrong that we hate and ask ourselves why, lol. And it's because of this condition of weakness toward self interest. We try and no matter how hard we try we just can't seem to overcome this (all sin has it's foundation in selfish behavior), that is why Christ was given as a payment for sin for all that will receive him. God does not hate evil because he is some self righteous despot, but because of the harm done by deliberate wrongful acts to his creation, Man. At some point He, as the Supreme power and moral governor of all has to rid his creation of these moral moral ills caused by hurtful selfish desires. As moral governor it is obligatory upon him to set up a society that produces the highest amount of good for the highest amount of people and to weed out those that disrupt the good with destructive behaviors. This is the goal of every civilized society. We as a nation incarcerate offenders of our civil laws for this very reason. Our freedom is limited by the principal of societal peaceful coexistence or enjoyment. We are free to live as we want as long as we don't infringe negatively on the rights of others to do the same. I find that most people don't have a problem with the punishment of evil doers but the primary objection people have with hell is that it is portrayed in popular culture as a place where the wicked burn with fire forever. Upon closer examination of biblical symbolism we understand that fire is the symbol for the consummate judgement of God. The wicked are consumed by this type of judgement, much like when you strike a match and it burns until the matchstick material burns out, it ceases to exist. It's eternal in the sense that it can't be undone and therefore last forever. Jesus said that, My fan is in my hand and the chaff will be consumed by unquenchable fire in the day of judgement and the wheat will be gathered into his barns. There are many old and new testament examples that support this concept of consuming fire, the Jewish sacrificial system, Sodom and Gomorrah, Elijah's Alter are a few. God is not cruel, but love, and even when He is forced to act harshly there is mercy and opportunity to escape judgement. People will not continuously burn for ever but will be consume by the burning fire of God's anger against those who reject His offer of peace that is found in Christ. Christ came to put an end to sin, not by presently ridding sin out of society, (that will happen at the consummation of the ages), but by satisfying the justice of God against sin, he bore on himself the consequences of our sins, past, present and future, at the cross. And God by accepting his death for us and as us, has exhausted his anger against us for our personal sins and through the new birth of water and spirit has freed us from the consequences of Original Sin. The only Sin that will send anyone to hell (eternal judgement) is the sin of unbelief and the subsequent rejection of his Son Jesus our Savior.

[@jeffreysweetman7023]

Coneigh Seay-Dial Coneigh Seay-Dial if you understand and have come to know that God is love and quit trying to define and understand God through the experiential, emotional, and knowledge based of learned knowledge and experience, instead realizing you really dont know anything at all, your beginning to gain wisdom. My life's experiences have taught me to be grateful for what i have and not for what I dont. When you begin to tap into what God is which resides in your heart as love, to serve God as love through all your actions with others by loving, caring, and sharing with others to live in peace, harmony, and balance with others, that while the world can still be brutal and unforgiving, what comes back to you is greater enlightenment to learning how to know God through love and how true happiness and joy can come to you that gives greater meaning and purpose to our lives to grow and discover higher levels of spiritual enlightenment upon which accepting God's world as it is, then what you think it should be,(control) is directly proportional to the amount of seventy you receive in your heart and soul that comes through Gods love with peace. In other words, peace and serenity come through the ability to not serving pure self-interest by the materially of the physical world and the idoltry worship of money by which we measure each other's lives by, but quit trying to be the director of the play in life where if anything or anyone who does not comply with your world view of things, causes us to be upset, than we cannot find that serenity. We are always on a collision course with someone or something or some fact of our lives we find unacceptable to us. Acceptance is the key to happiness and upon which Gods love is made manifest through our hearts by serving the will of God by God as love we share with others to live in harmony. When we all do we can. But there are always those among us who wish to act upon their own pure self interest and wish to control everything and think the material form of everything to accumulate with power over people is somehow personal fulfillment cone from with happiness. Instead its that mindset and lifestyle which undermines it. God knows I could share example after examples in fact hundreds of them over 62 years of my life, including having died twice on an operating table to get my life back and know God is as real to me as life itself as the director of my life, and when I do, I have become personally happy and content, for when you do you can learn through God to fear nothing including death itself.

[@SoEFleX]

So he love us so much that he sent his son/himself to die for us so he does not have to send us to hell that he created. But he will burn your ass anyway if you don't love him back. WoW you have a perverted scene of love I am sorry to say.

[@avigreenvideo]

The ideal free enterprise system, worshipped here by Mr. Brooks, is more hypothetical than real, at least in the United States. People may feel rewarded by their work, but that doesn't mean people are actually being fairly rewarded. Nepotism, elitism, and class stratification are real, significant barriers to true free enterprise.

[@korgy321]

Totally agree. There is a huge wealth inequality along with classism running rampart here. Tell the poor single mother who has to work two jobs just to survive. I doubt her work is rewarding in any sense.

[@leonardnystrom5293]

Greatest app.I have Seen FOR Positive thinking so far!

[@haman7227]

Happiness is progress, growing,… Work harder on yourself development (evenings & weekends & audio book in car, etc.) than your job. Make yourself more valuable (“attractive”) person, you will get higher income and success. Think - ‘you are always working for yourself even when someone else writes the paycheck’, treat your work as if it’s your own business - this will not only increase your paycheck but you will enjoy your work more. You have to become a better person before money or success will follow.

[@DaveLotito]

Doing what your passionate about is what makes you happy!

[@jerryutah4]

This is a great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@NilouTx]

Excellent speaker! I COMPLETELY agree with everything he says!

[@bryanjarrin1150]

I absolutely agree with the thought of money not being able to bye happiness... money CAN buy things that MAKE YOU happy but it itself doesn’t buy happiness. Never focus on the money, it’s a bad way to choose a future, if you have goals and persue them, money will come by itself.

[@jozefserf2024]

Yes but the lack of money will make you very unhappy.

[@CoachShanesDailyDictation]

Such a fantastic video. It all bears out.

[@TheMissEnergy]

You know that this guy is so amazing that he even included the "rules of the law" in the recipe of happiness. It's true, we need stability and solid foundations to be able to build our life and to build a happy life!

[@VicodinMA]

Where the heck did my comment go?!!! *scratching my head*

[@filologkenan]

Speaks just like you shane. Very understandable :)

[@ГульмираКененбаева-л6с]

If you wanna be happy to say thanks to God always for all things; 1- you're safe and sound, 2- you're alive,3-you have a job , 4-you have a roof above your head and etc , be thankful for God and don't complain on own life, be simple person, God bless all people in the world

[@mitzoss]

Faith, family, community and work! (Note for me!)

[@ajmarr5671]

A simple procedure for self-control and wellbeing or 'happiness derived from the simple act of resting, and explained through basic affective neuroscience The neuropsychology of resting states is generally neglected in cognitive and affective neuroscience as both use methodologies (e.g. brain scans; ‘in vivo’ or direct manipulations of brain cells), that cannot account for afferent inputs from the musculature that induce affective states. Yet a neuroscientific explanation of rest is arguably key to our capacity for self-motivation and a sense of purpose and positive feeling or happiness. This can be explained through elementary observations from affective neuroscience and demonstrated procedurally. Rest, or the generalized inactivity of the covert musculature, is simple to describe as a somatic or bodily state, but is much more complex as a neurophysiological state. For one thing, it is pleasurable. The reduction of perseverative cognition (worry, regret, distraction) through meditation, eyes closed rest, or just walking on a beach thinking of nothing gives the musculature the time to completely relax, and this state of persistent or profound relaxation elicits a state of pleasure or mild euphoria due to the concomitant and sustained elicitation of endogenous opioids (or endorphins) in the brain. The sustained increase of endogenous opioids also down regulates opioid receptors, and thus inhibits the salience or reward value of other substances (food, alcohol, drugs) that otherwise increase opioid levels, and therefore reduces cravings. Profound relaxation also mitigates our sensitivity to pain and inhibits tension. In this way, relaxation causes pleasure, enhances self-control, counteracts and inhibits stress, reduces pain, and provides for a feeling of satisfaction and equanimity that is the hallmark of the so-called meditative state. However, pleasure from a neural viewpoint is not a simple thing. Groups of opioid neurons or ‘nuclei’ populate a tiny region of the neural real estate in the midbrain, and as ‘hot spots’ are collectively no larger than the eraser on a pencil. Yet they are highly sensitive to inputs from different sources in the brain. One of the primary inputs come from dopaminergic neurons, whose nuclei are adjacent to opioid neurons. The axons for dopaminergic neurons project from the midbrain to the cortex, and dopamine systems are highly sensitive to cortically processed information, namely novel and positive act-outcome expectancies or surprises that populate our days. Dopamine is a neuromodulator, or a type of neurotransmitter that activates arrays of neurons in the cortex, and is responsible for learning and motivation. Dopamine induces attentive arousal, but not pleasure, but it can indirectly increase pleasure if it occurs concurrently with the co-activation of opioid systems. For example, eat a very tasty treat, and dopamine activity will increase as you snap to attention in response to the pleasure. Conversely, the florid description of a bottle of wine will make the wine taste better because of an increase in dopaminergic activity that in turn increases opioid levels in the brain (this is also the mechanism behind the placebo effect where positive expectations change affect). In sum, opioid and dopamine systems are synergistic, and if concurrently activated will co-activate each other. So what does this have to do with resting and motivation? Since resting protocols (e.g. mindfulness, eyes closed rest, meditation) induce opioid activity, that activity will be accentuated if an individual concurrently and persistently thinks of and pursues meaningful behavior (meaning will be defined as thinking of or doing actions that have branching novel positive implications, or a variant of positive thinking). Since meaningful behavior induces dopamine release, this establishes a ‘virtuous’ neurological circuit, when rest can be merged with meaning and lead to pleasurably aroused states or even ecstasy. We can infer these processes from variants of meditation such as ‘loving kindness’ meditation and savoring, as well as peak and ‘flow’ experiences where highly meaningful activity is coupled with non-stressed or resting states. Above all, meaningful behavior is productive behavior that has positive novel and unfolding implications, and when persistently associated with positive affect from rest, can become in a sense ‘autotelic’ or rewarding in itself, allowing us to control our behavior through self-induced positive affect. By coming to terms with the neurologic reality of relaxation, we can realize it’s possibilities as essential to daily life and to self-control that make life worthwhile, pleasurable, productive, and ‘happy’. Authors Note You can pursue a much more expansive argument for a lay audience in my two open-source books and journal article below on the psychology of rest and the psychology of incentive motivation. Also, my arguments above are not new science, but a new interpretation of the research of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to vet my books for accuracy and to provide endorsements in their preface. Meditation and Rest- The American Psychologist/David Holmes www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist The Psychology of Rest and Meditation, from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation For an excellent take on opioid and dopamine systems and how they act and interact, see The Joyful Mind: Kringelbach and Berridge sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf A more formal explanation of this procedure from affective neuroscience is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. Flow is discussed on pp. 82-87 www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing ‘A Mouse’s Tale’ Learning theory for a lay audience from the perspective of modern affective neuroscience www.scribd.com/document/495438436/A-Mouse-s-Tale-a-practical-explanation-and-handbook-of-motivation-from-the-perspective-of-a-humble-creature Berridge Lab sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/

[@thisisntallowed9560]

gratitude (when it's well-placed, like don't feel gratitude towards things that makes you sad)

[@KaiyoSay]

He was heading in the right direction but he missed the point. Instead of focusing on happiness, that even comes with little simple things, you should focus on the contrast that helps you feel it. The reason a lot of successful people burn out too quickly is because they lack the contrast to enjoy what they have. That's also why people who have nothing appreciate the little things so strongly, they have that contrast. It's something that's cyclical and literally in everything, there's cycles in our heart beats, breathing, the seasons, our life styles and emotions. Its a necessity. Yet we constantly strive to only feel bliss without realizing that it's impossible and fleeting without the necessary contrast. We're very ambitious by nature but that can make things difficult for us when we've already reached the tippy tippy top. I would say the key to happiness isn't pushing away the bad entirely, but embracing it occasionally, as it's often what provides you with your contrast. Appreciate the void that comes and goes.

[@fronthandbackhand9804]

Be stable, comfortable, and do great things for others. It's as simple as that.

[@LearnEnglishESL]

Rather than comparing myself to everyone else, I'll wotk on my relationships with all men, God, the environment, my dog, society, etc.etc. ... love, love unity, unity, peace,.. "...human happiness is founded upon spiritual behaviour." - ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

[@itzkkkkkkaiman]

This is gold.

[@amgtv3487]

This is awesome, thanks for this.

[@Tory-JJ]

lol the windowed woman part.. you got a chuckle out of me

[@jovandavidovic1]

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

[@Hammett175]

Nice talk. A lot of truth in it. However, I think St. Augustine had it right, and much more simply: "God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you." -- Confessions of Saint Augustine (397 A.D.) I am glad I stopped long enough in my life to see exactly what he did about it. He sought the "peace that surpasses all understanding." That is the secret to my happiness.

[@ShahedKhalili]

$1 in 1970 was worth a whole lot more. This guy should've stuck to playing music.

[@najialhani]

Really interesting presentation.. I enjoyed it very much..

[@mikeaguero2875]

When you show up at work make sure you have a big smile on your face

[@TOMMMME]

What about raw, living food nutrition, and meditation/yoga? I eat a highly raw food diet with lots of fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds and it makes my body feel good, which in turn makes me happier. Everyone needs to experiment with eating clean food. Once the body detoxifies, a new clarity comes about and we're able to feel a new sense of self.

[@Mursaat100]

14.00 - Most important takeaway: Earned success is the most important key to happiness. What matters is that you genuinely believe that you are creating value in other people's lives. Remember this. Don't just watch the video and let it be forgotten without any action taken.

[@BroVinTV]

Thanks for sharing

[@AEI]

Marvin Porciuncula We're glad you enjoyed the video, Marvin! We'd love to share more of Arthur Brooks' ongoing project on happiness with you. Sign up to receive updates on Arthur Brooks' Facebook page: ow.ly/rZBtc

[@javiersds8081]

This is the best advocacy of free market ever.

[@francismausley7239]

"We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all good - this is the secret of right living." ~ Shoghi Effendi, Baha'i Faith

[@SKF358]

40 percent of happiness being driven by big events contradicts that big events lose their effect in 6 months. That would require a big event every 15 months, though they don't occur that frequently.

[@mindfulnessasia1082]

Loving Service is the Highest Happiness. Material pleasure in this world can be compared to broken glass. Lasting spiritual happiness is like a diamond. From a distance they may look like the same thing. Under the nice light glass can look attractive. But you cut yourself when you try to pick it up and play with it. So, we have to learn the difference between material and spiritual. Material is temporary, ever changing and full of problems. Spiritual is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. The abode of the Supreme Lord is spiritual and is always full of happiness. All of us want to be happy. The Supreme Lord is always happy, and the living beings in this material world are always struggling with unhappiness. Practically speaking, the highest happiness we know is when the pain temporarily disappears. We are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Just like these twigs are part of the tree. Why are they green? They are happy leaves because they are hooked onto the tree. The leaves on the ground are dry unhappy leaves. Likewise, we will be full of life and happiness when we are connected to the Supreme Lord.

[@IvanGreenaway]

Brilliant!

[@gretelhance]

State of mind!

[@makdavian3567]

8:41 wooooooo looks like someone was going to be happy that night!

[@rutimizrachi]

Wow. Thank you for this. I'm gift-wrapping it as a present to my sons. :-)

[@AEI]

Ruti Mizrachi Thanks for your feedback on the video! If you'd like to learn more about Arthur Brooks' project on happiness, check out his Facebook page and sign-up for updates: ow.ly/rV4ON

[@BettyKrocker]

amazing I'm pumped up thank u

[@bjuliene]

You get your motorcycle Arthur Brooks!!

[@cornighterfilms579]

Amazing speech

[@liangQ1]

Just take what life give you. Doesn't matter good or bad. You never feel stress , you won't know what is happy .

[@jabuser]

Only those who have started from nothing, and still were able to be successful in life, can fully appreciate what he has said. If we can't control 88% of it, the 12% left to us can make a big difference. This may not be easy, but our choices can make a huge difference, i.e., we can choose to sacrifice, to get an education, and start at the bottom and earn our way up.

[@NeverZitrone]

I've been loving advertisements on youtube recently.

[@AEI]

NeverZitrone Thanks for watching the video! If you'd like to learn more about Arthur Brooks' multiyear project on happiness, check out his Facebook page and sign-up to receive updates: ow.ly/rV4ON

[@FeliciaCravens]

'The free enterprise system is a moral imperative' - Arthur Brooks

[@GoalWeightCoach]

This is awesome. Thanks so much. Super motivated now :)

[@shadyghalab]

Thank you

[@mariamawitmary8559]

Tnx very much

[@lailyjan2]

I do agree on everything this man says except that the enterprise system. Socialism does make people happy even more than the enterprise system. Because in socialism you do keep your hard earned money and by the taxses that you pay you can help others and you have the security of being helped by the government if you land in trouble. The happiest people of 2013 lived in europe. The reason for that was because Europe is socialist and not kapitalist.

[@atheismisawesomesmith4541]

Nope, all of Europe is free market capitalism. Socialism is when the state owns the means of production.

[@zaidradwan4000]

You're very nice and funny guy .. thank you very much

[@erksipa]

What about balance? Is it possible to have a free market that does not include water and food?

[@hcjordan1]

How to be happy from a 1 percenter: Stop whining about your lack of money and get back to work. Work makes you happy. Your work makes me happy because your work makes me money.

[@yourfreementor7]

hahaha bingo! also notice the emphasis he put on work over family, community, and faith. Those 3 things to him only deserved a 1-2 sentence explanation each...

[@Bravesailor95]

It is hard to be happy when the top 1% is getting the rewards of your hard earn success.

[@enrichingexchanges]

So, 88% of "happiness" is out of control. Yet, there are speakers like this who are able to market "happiness" for a lot of money. It is worth keeping in mind that this speech is given to the American Enterprise Institute. The content of this speech is a "thank you" to the sponsors rather than an actual discussion of what makes people happy. The most enduring findings in serious happiness research is kindness and giving, things that are antithetical to the intellectuals bred on a daily dose of Ayn-Rand. Yet, he cannot say that with a straight face. Instead, he is reduced to a puppet of talking about individual pursuit. In fact, the more self-focused you are, the more likely you are to be unhappy. The best happiness interventions (based on, serious research) are helping others and being thankful. This speech, and many such speeches on happiness, are standing evidence of the phrase attributed to P. T. Barnum, "there is a sucker born every minute". Looks like a bunch of suckers out there willing to gobble up this brand of seemingly happy but fundamentally incoherent balderdash.

[@lisarosch7312]

i had to double check the date on this ... because i don't remember a time when there weren't starving kids in the world. And i know plenty of people that slave away for the free enterprise system and are buried in debt. Obviously, supports the corpocracy.

[@mamacacanana]

I think happiness is not worrying about things. And money can bring that if you use it right.

[@Licmigguel]

excellent video, thanks for the information

[@יגוראלבז]

Happiness is a spiritual state. Further than have success or the appropriate age or gender or DNA even, is to have mental health. People that have healthy mind is evidently happier.

[@louisswitzer538]

Thank you, Sam

[@jackgoldman1]

The Fidelity study shows three correlations to happiness in retirement, health, community, money. Being married and having children had no direct correlation to happiness. Single people or people with no kids, are happy if they are health, community, and money.

[@AEI]

How much control do you really have over your happiness? The answer might surprise you: The secret to happiness

[@thewalker124]

I found happiness is more about a "who" then a "what". I just did a video on my channel about this!

[@xabi2025]

Life is a dream we are living awake.

[@AEI]

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[@r.a.h.175]

If one could walk and eat, that’s happiness.

[@Byenia]

Huh. I wanted to like this video, but I have too many quibbles, including over the job satisfaction survey claims. Would need to examine that one for myself, because I highly doubt 89% of American workers report being "satisfied" or "highly satisfied" in their jobs. In fact, I'm pretty damn sure I've read contradictory statistics on the matter. How big was that sampling? A lot of folks find their jobs pointless or not terribly interesting, so I keep hearing. Or if it's not the job itself it's the way work is typically set up these days. Lots of pencil-pushing, customer service, and data entry drudgery out here in the modern-day economy. I get the idea that we should pursue our passions while honing our skills. Basically do what we're good at and through doing so strive to be successful -- that's all well and good. It's how he winds up defining free enterprise that throws me, particularly "keep what you earn." Depends on how we define earnings, which in too many corporations today involves a great bit of exploitation in order to provide cheaper services and products, as well as tax evasion deemed legal via political manipulation, etc. That's not free enterprise, that's market domination, which winds up being anti-capitalist in the final result. Haven't watched other videos on this channel besides Christina Hoff Sommers', so I'm not yet sure if these topics have been addressed and fleshed out. Because as it stands here what's being advocated sounds pro-neoconservative.

[@18dnu]

yeah I thought this a few times over this video...where's he getting all these facts, He rarely stated his source

[@fatmaannoune8843]

thanks for this great video

[@happierdaybyday-dominiksku7460]

+fatma fati Hi Fatmati ,if you are interested in happiness topics I think my videos can bring you a value in to your life especially happiness psychology lessons I am producing :-)

[@carmenfontes]

Fantastic!

[@AEI]

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[@110Coronets]

"They might as well have said 'and earning our success'". But they didn't. They had some crazy idea that we'd all work together to raise up the least among us.

[@GordonBarkerAuthor]

As you get older you have less happiness nice to see some optimism here..

[@neilthin1023]

There's nothing intrinsically wrong in embarking on numerical routes to understanding happiness, provided that you don't forget that the numbers are really just thought experiments, not factual representations of real substances. Brooks claims confidently that scientific studies have proved that 48% of our happiness is ‘genetically determined’, 40% is caused by ‘things that have occurred in our recent past’, and 12% by factors that ‘we can bring under our own control’ (especially ‘faith, family and friendships’). This is a prime example of fatuous use of statistics, based on three extremely shaky assumptions: 1.that is is useful to pretend that happiness is a single quantifiable entity - i.e. to use a 'substance' metaphor to imagine highly complex thoughts, conversations, stories, and experiences 2. That we can accurately measure this entity to say how happy people are at least at the level of population generalisations; and 3. That we can say with confidence what percentage of this measured quantity (or what percentage of the variation in it?) is caused by ‘genes’, by ‘events’ (beyond our control) and by those choices that are within our control. To make such evidently ludicrous assumptions, Brooks needs to studiously ignore several possibilities (actually rather more than just possibilities - certainties would be more accurate): 1.that happiness may just be too complex to reduce meaningfully to any single scale (i.e. that any single measure, though perhaps interesting and in some ways useful, can only ever be seen as a very partial take on happiness) 2. That even if there were such a theoretically measurable entity, our actual measures (self-reports elicited by specific kinds of wording, in specific contexts, by specific interviewers) may not accurately reflect that reality, even at the level of aggregated populations. 3. That even if we could believe that survey self-reports accurately represented a real measurable entity called ‘happiness’, the ongoing interactions between genes, events, and intentional choices may be so complex that it simply makes no sense at all to talk of how much percent of this entity is attributable to any one of these interdependent causes. A further thing he ignores is that if you are going to make such bold claims about what percent of happiness is attributable to which category of cause, you need to say something intelligible about what your imagined ‘0-100 scale of causation’ is actually representing. Does it represent all of happiness, as Brooks implies? If so, it would be rather weird to say that genes and environmental factors are separable causes, since they are evidently both 100% essential for our existence, let alone our survival and happiness. Or does he mean the variation in happiness between all individuals in the world? Or the variation in happiness between all individuals in a given population? Or the variation in happiness that is possible in one individual? Brooks simply ignores all these issues.

[@alexwinter666]

"Literally the best thing that can happen to you if you buy a lottery ticket is that you don't win." LIES!!!!

[@michaelstryker5677]

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[@randyscott2610]

We have to break free.

[@JeffHallett2]

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[@maryngshwuling9916]

If you want to be happy, live a simple life and enjoy every moment. 😀