Name: 【TEDx】Is the glass half full or half empty? The final proof! Leo Bormans at TEDxGhent
Uploaded: 2014-06-28T15:20:00.000Z
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is whether the glass is half full  or half empty.

that we'll give the answer  to that question today.

You have become  an ambassador of creativity,

you are an ambassador of courage, of innovation, of organisation.

We all are ambassadors  of some strength.

my father was a salesman. He took me to small grocery shops

They turned upside down  an old vegetable box.

I would be standing on it  and recite poems.

In fact, when I'm talking today, on this thing, what did they do?

They turned an old vegetable box  upside down,

and I hopefully  get an ice cream afterwards.

We learn to support  through positive engagement,

We don't learn anything  through cynicism

in Nepal and in India I met the word 'namaste'.

But when an American says 'hello',  it doesn't mean anything.

There is something positive in you  and I bow for that, deeply.

Students to teachers,  all over, everyday, 100 times.

I've seen you.  There is a positive strength in you.

I'm not driving the country  in a car full of balloons.

If I open the door of your heart,  there is a lot of sadness

I changed the motto to 'Do worry, be happy'.

There is something going wrong  in the world,

Everyone is looking  for happiness, all over,

to summarize in 1000 words  what we know about happiness,

not what we believe,  but what we know about happiness.

We have been studying psychology,  sociology, economics.

That's what's it about:  not only philosophy.

It's not about sunflowers and balloons,  it's about science.

We know quite a lot  about schizophrenia, paranoia,

but most of the people are not  schizophrenics or paranoiacs.

The opposite of unhappy  is 'not unhappy',

So if we could study  what makes people happy

We know that the relationship  between optimism and happiness

The relationship between  smoking and lung cancer

is the same as the relationship  between optimism and happiness.

When you are an optimist,  you become happy.

And when you're happier,  you're healthier

and successful, in sports,  in science, in friendship.

Why don't you want  to become an optimist?

We know from science that 50 percent  of optimism is about genetics.

It's about what we got from our parents,  our grandparents and so on.

that is the house we have,  the job we have.

40 percent is left  for what is between our ears.

That's the mindset,  the way we look at things.

The 50 percent of genetics, we cannot change.

The 10 percent of circumstances,  are what we focus on all day long.

And the 40 percent  is what we have in our own hands.

Don't you think that happy people  experience more happy things

We all experience  more or less the same things in our lives

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【TEDx】Is the glass half full or half empty? The final proof! Leo Bormans at TEDxGhent

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