My favorite hobby is looking back at all my absurd thoughts, aka flipping through all of my old journal entries. I actually do this quite often. I love to look back and see what minuscule thing had me panicking 3 years ago or what little comment brought me joy 5 months ago.And if you go back to my very first journal entry, you'll see that it was dated for April 17th, 2020. And since then, I've collected stacks of journals, bought so much stationery, and have tried almost every journaling method you could po ...

As Eric Hoffer once wrote, "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." I grew up chasing a version of happiness that everyone told me was the ideal version. I believed that checking all the right boxes would somehow make me feel fulfilled. But in reality, I felt more disconnected from myself.I'm not someone who has it all figured out. I'm simply someone living through the mess. This talk isn't about perfection, but about being honest and admitting happiness isn't a destination, bu ...

Imagine being at a Ravens playoff party. Everyone is shouting at the TV like the players can hear them and there's me laughing at the commercials because that is the only part I understand. So, am I in the party or outside of it.Somehow both. That is what it feels like to live in between. When you move abroad, people tell you happiness is waiting for you at the border holding a giant welcome sign with your name on it.But the only sign I saw said, "Do you have anything to declare today? I want to share my st ...

ऑलराइट। सो अ वेरी गुड आफ्टरनून पीपल। माय नेम इज आर्यन। एंड माय नेम इज दीपक। एंड टुगेदर वी आर द फाउंडर्स ऑफ़ दौड़। ऑलराइट। सो जस्ट टू गिव यू गाइज़ अ क्विक बैक स्टोरी एस टू हाउ ऑल ऑफ़ दिस स्टार्टेड ऑफ़ हाउ दिस आइडिया केम इंटू आवर माइंड्स ऑफ़ हाउ वी आर डूइंग व्हाट वी आर डूइंग टुडे। सो, अह वी आर बोथ फ्रॉम कंप्लीटली डिफरेंट सिटीज फ्रॉम कंप्लीटली डिफरेंट वर्ल्ड्स, एंड आई एम ओनली सेइंग दिस बिकॉज़ इन आवर स्पीच टुडे, ज्योग्राफिकल लोकेशंस विल एक्चुअली मैटर अ लॉट। द प्रॉब्लम्स दैट पीपल फेस इन टियर वन सिटीज आर नॉट एक्क्टली द ...

[Music] Binad Vinit. [Applause] So I'd like to invite you to join me in a small exercise. um to just calm the mind down, center your mind.So if you can please uh move kind of uh towards the center of your seat like keep your back away from the back of the seat. Put your feet flat on the floor for those of you who can and then uh put your hands maybe on your knees or your lap. Then you can gently close your eyes.You can imagine uh from the top of your head, the crown of your head, a piece of string tied to t ...

[Music] I'm Vive Katray and I'm delighted to be speaking on the portrait of a mind. It's a great event. It's been put together very well.Young minds at work. What about older minds. They get tired, but they're also working hard.And minds are cluttered. They're cluttered. Is life cluttered. Life is cluttered.Life would be nothing if it were not so busy, so engaging, so entertaining. We think that the mind is disturbed, but if someone else is watching, it's all a comedy show. A person sitting on the ceiling h ...

Happiness by and large is how things transpire relative to our expectations. >> That's correct. >> Not the absolute level of our conditions.Somebody who doesn't have much money and they get $10,000, they're elated. Somebody's got billions and they lose a hundred million or something and they're still very rich. They're depressed.So happiness is I think how that developed relative to our expectations. >> A reason. >> It creates a dilemma.Because we can become very attached to our expectations and as distinct ...

[Music] Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and the Netherlands. What makes these the happiest countries in the world. It is not the weather, nor the number of days of sunshine, or the length of daylight in the winter.Eyes on you, Finland. What makes these the happiest countries in the world. What do they have in common.They ride bicycles. Not only are these the happiest countries in the world, but they're also the countries with the highest rates of bicycling in the world. connected bike paths, greenways, n ...

That's me. Class 6 10 years old. I can't forget that day.The day the picture was shot. That morning our teacher I don't have to circle her. That morning our teacher asked us what do you want to become in life.The roll call started. engineer, doctor, lawyer, CA, sportsman. And then suddenly it was my turn.She looked at me. I was very clear in my mind what I wanted to say although I was nervous. And then I said, "Miss, I want to be happy." [Applause] She was startled.She possibly did not know how to grade tha ...

[Music] Well, this morning I had a lovely walk in your beautiful campus resting in the lap of beautiful mountains and the blessings of Sri Chinayanji. It was a lovely walk and I was speaking to a few students and one of the students mentioned to me that he's joined this particular course that he has joined because his parents want him to join their business. Now I was a medical doctor.Uh nobody forced me to become a doctor but when I was 18 years old uh like most 18 years olds I did not know uh what exactly ...