What Makes Us Happy? | Video channel on TED.com.
This was TED theme in 2004 conference. ‘but TED speakers over many years have continued this quest. ‘
So do I……..
Let us how this journey unfolds……..
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What Makes Us Happy? | Video channel on TED.com
- Post author By ASHOK M VAISHNAV
- Post date January 31, 2012
- 1 Comment on What Makes Us Happy? | Video channel on TED.com
By ASHOK M VAISHNAV
In July 2011, I opted to retire from my active career as a practicing management professional. In the 38 years that I pursued this career, I had opportunity to work in diverse capacities, in small-to-medium-to-large engineering companies. Whether I was setting up Greenfield projects or Brownfield projects, nurturing the new start-ups or accelerating the stabilized unit to a next phase growth, I had many more occasions to take the paths uncharted. The life then was so challenging!
One of the biggest casualty in that phase was my disregards towards my hobbies - Be with The Family, Enjoy Music form Films of 1940s to mid-1970s period, write on whatever I liked to read, pursue amateur photography and indulge in solving the chess problems.
So I commenced my Second Innings to focus on this area of my life as the primary occupation.
At the end of four years, I am now quite a regular blogger. I have been able to build a few very strong pen-relationships.
I maintain contact with 38-years of my First Innings as freelance trainer and process facilitator.
And yet,
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
The world is too small? or Is it? 
One reply on “What Makes Us Happy? | Video channel on TED.com”
“Happiness and unhappiness (in work and in life) result entirely from the rules in your head that you use to evaluate events. Those rules determine what’s worth focusing on, and how you react to what you focus on.
Many people have rules that make it very difficult for them to happy and very easy for them to be miserable.”
This taken up from a blog -post “How To Be Happy at Work”
So, let us not be unhappy, a possible first step towards being Happy.