Name: What Is The Secret Of Happiness? | The School of Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
Uploaded: 2019-11-07T18:05:05.000Z
Duration: 6 min 41 s
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This is Walter's human,  Jessica. 00:00:09.408 --> 00:00:10.610 line:0% Hello. 00:00:10.643 --> 00:00:13.079 line:0% NARRATOR:  This is Jessica's fridge.

The School of Life is sending some of YouTube's most  popular creators

some of philosophy's  most intriguing ideas. 00:00:35.101 --> 00:00:37.170 line:0%  This time,  Jessica Kellgren-Fozard 00:00:37.203 --> 00:00:39.138 line:0%  a content creator  with more subscribers 00:00:39.171 --> 00:00:40.706 line:0% than the population of Iceland,

As long as humans have  traveled the Earth,

people have been motivated  by one thing above all.

But we humans seem to have  an uncanny knack

Why? What are most of us getting wrong about happiness?

And how could we all  strive to be happier?

we need someone with  a different outlook on life.

Jessica suffers from  nerve disorder HNPP,

Which means she sometimes  has to use a mobility aid.

I'm mostly deaf and partially visually impaired.

NARRATOR: Jessica doesn't  let it get her down.

to be your exhibit on happiness in this film.

that I have the same needs and desires for happiness,

It's just that I faced a fair few obstacles along the way.

And, I guess that's given me a unique perspective

NARRATOR: Couldn't have  said it better myself.

So what do people think  is the key to happiness?

Probably like a Chanel bag or something, yeah.

Just to be able to buy a house would be, uh,

NARRATOR: But are money,  cars, a bag and a plane

really what would make the good people  of Brighton happy?

The belief that we have  a right to happiness

but no one can agree  what makes us happy.

Many think that material wealth  will do the trick,

The ancient Greeks had very different concepts  of happiness

to our ideas based on  what we own or how we feel.

Aristotle defined happiness  as eudaimonia,

a state achieved by living a virtuous life and doing  good things.

While the Stoics believed  that true happiness

happiness became all about  how we feel, not what we do,

that the feeling of happiness can be stimulated  by amphetamines,

are taken by hundreds of millions of people  every day.

The Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl echoed  the ancient Greeks,

saying that happiness  is served by selfless acts.

So, is happiness something  we can all find

What does our happiness  expert Jessica think? 00:03:36.448 --> 00:03:37.817 line:0% Because I have health problems, 00:03:37.850 --> 00:03:39.919 line:0% I've had to learn to find happiness 00:03:39.952 --> 00:03:42.622 line:0% when my body is trying to bring me down. 00:03:42.655 --> 00:03:45.591 line:0% As such, I developed a pretty unique perspective 00:03:45.624 --> 00:03:47.927 line:0% on what actually makes us happy. 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:49.528 line:0% And thus I present... 00:03:49.561 --> 00:03:51.631 line:0% [READING]

[JESSICA READING] 00:03:56.602 --> 00:04:00.039 align:start size:94% position:6% line:0% Human connection is the most vital path to happiness.

with someone else's mushy, vulnerable insides.

Living with a disability and chronic illness,

when things have gone badly wrong and I've ended up in hospital

in excruciating pain and the edge of dying.

Even if that's something as little as having your favorite drink.

I accept my limitations,  because by setting a limit,

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