Sunday, 3 January 2010

synthesising happiness

Due to the mid year vacation, thanks to our students and politicians, I am happily blogging instead of preparing for my lectures.
I have tried time and again to explain to my daughter that being happy is not about getting this or that, not success, nor having good things happen to one...we are happy or not, depending on how we look at things (barring real tragedies).
Now there is a TED talk that says so much better than I could...we synthesise our happiness!!
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