[Music] Hi. Okay. Raise your hand if anyone has ever said, "Oh, I was just really lucky." Or, "I just happened to stumble in the right place at the right time." Yeah.Right. We've all heard that, right. Well, today I hope I don't stumble in my heels, but we've all heard that time and again.And 68% of people uh surveyed mentioned that they believe in luck. But luck is just such an abstract concept. And I I was always very fascinated with luck because I saw that people that were lucky just kept getting lucky a ...

Imagine [Applause] spending ages preparing for a project just to fail two steps from success. In grade 8, I was facing an exam I've been preparing for for the last year and pressure was mounting. But in those final few months leading up to the exam, I barely studied two hours on my best days while others did double.When the results finally came out, I realized that I was so close to my goal but just failed. This is just one of countless times where my productivity has held me back from success. But while my ...

The first of these questions is how often do we throw around the word happy and happiness. It's almost as if the meaning is simple and self-explanatory. But if I asked you right now to define happiness, to tell me what it means to live a happy life, I bet you'd hesitate.When psychology attempted to do this, we got over 20 definitions of happiness in the form of theories like the self-determination theory or frameworks that highlight the need for autonomy, goal setting, and self-acceptance. Beyond this, ther ...

Everyone here has had a goal at some point in their life. Whether small or big, like an like a diet or an important project, we all had to overcome a barrier called starting. You know, you want to achieve something.You have an idea of how to get there, but most of the time you lose motivation very quickly. For example, I had a goal to give up on chocolate because I wanted to be fitter. I had an outline of an outline of a plan, but it turns out being fit actually takes work.Yeah, know I gave up in around 2 h ...