Make the most of it herself.

Do as well as you can compared with other people.

Get better grades, get a better income.

And of course, if your goal is a comparative one and you look at the effect of that at the level of society, it's zero sum, because if somebody wins, somebody has to lose.

That's not great for the losers, but it's actually not great for the winners we've got from the Gallup World Poll.

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Do people feel their life is stressful on In spite of the fact we're so much richer previous generations, we are also more stressed.

That doesn't make sense.

So what we need is not a serious some girl.

We need the positive, some girl where we're getting a smut as we can of our happiness, from not being better than other people, but contributing to their happiness on that.

That means that for each of us, the goal has got to be in our lives to create a much happiness as we can in the world.

I think that's a wonderful goal for everybody.

From the youngest to the oldest on.

I think we've got a great idea that has been established by modern psychology or reinvented.

You might say that the way to make ourselves feel better is to work on changing our thoughts because they're accessible, directly accessible to us on what we have to do essentially is just we all have negative thoughts constantly is to separate ourselves, find ways of separating ourselves from our negative thoughts on creating space for positive thoughts on positive action.

So that's what modern psychology, positive psychology eyes telling us.

It's also, of course, what was said centuries ago in the East.

And so we're getting also the same message carried on the practice of mindfulness and other Eastern practices, which can also be very, very helpful.

But I want to talk mainly about the care of others on.

Of course, that's partly in your personal life, but it's very importantly in your work life.

So, of course, we've got to know what are the most important things that affect people's happiness.

Andi.

They are in particular mental, physical health and human relationships, family work and community income is also important, but less than those.

And how do I know this?

Because we've done a lot of work on it.

On here is the main diagram.

Eso This is from Britain, but actually we've done it for a number of advanced countries.

It comes out the same everywhere.

The top factor explaining the spread of happiness.

This is a very simple question.

Have you ever been diagnosed for anxiety or depression?

Next is quality of work.

Um, which is also, of course, to do with relationships on next Is your family life your partnered on physical health than income?

It turns out that the best predictor of whether somebody will have a happy life as an adult is whether they were happy when they were a school child.

That's much more important than the grades they get.

But if you ask what the teachers think they're trying to do, they will allow tell you whether or not they want to.

They have to focus on getting on the grades.

This is not a good scene, eyes producing a lot of mental stress for young people.

We need to get the well being of the Children established as a goal of equal importance, as it is in the Netherlands.

For example, with the academic achievement, we need to encourage schools to measure how the school is doing with the well being of his Children to teach life skills weekly.

Then people go to work.

Aunt, Here's the shocking fact, but the least happy time in the day is Guess what When you're with your boss, we've got to have managers chosen for their ability to inspire, and not just to, uh, Dragoon Onda.

We've got to give workers more control over how their work is organized, and there are good methods of doing that.

Then, of course, there's a community where people live incredibly important to have good services, but also because those good services create social connections, which are very important to people's sense of belonging.

Services for Children, as you know, have been cut in our country.

Services for youth have been cut.

Services for old people have been cut, the benefits have been cut.

Of course, even if we got them better, we would still have some mental health problems.

The work of therapists is very important, and it can go beyond depression anxiety.

And it should be available, obviously for Children, including behavior problems for Children, which is not properly treated at the moment, but also for family conflict, domestic violence, drug and alcohol.

These are all psychological problems.

So we need a better society.

We need to help people personally, a swell who can lead the charge.

Well, I'm an economist.

I do think that I actually came to economic later in life because it had this idea, basic ideas.

You've got to have a clear objective.

And then you've got to think of what you do on the basis of how do you maximize the objective using whatever resources you have.

Um, so I think economists can lead the charge.

But we need, uh, that getting happiness established, a subjective.

We need politicians to listen.

And, of course, we need Thio have scientists who are thinking about future generations being as important as the present generation.

So I think we're at the beginning off a happiness revolution.

I think that all of us can play a great part.