Page 16 - CSA Speaker Bulletin March 2018

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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN HAPPINESS

While we hold the truth to be real hope, and exceptional ideas neuroinformatics, artificial intelligence
self-evident that happiness is de combined with fruitful action. and portable neurotech solutions.
facto better than unhappiness, Our global research on what followers
our research on how leaders help want from leaders largely reveals Recently he commended the World
individuals and organizations make that people want to be understood,
significant changes to survive in this to be developed according to their Government Summit 2018 in Dubai
digital world comes, not from joy, strengths and appetites, and to on their work. At this summit the
but from thoughtful and considered collaborate in real conversation with Global Dialogue for Happiness Forum
dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is the very people best positioned launched the first Global Happiness
only when people are UNhappy with to provide them the guidance and Report. This is a distillation of ideas
the current state that they are willing growth opportunities needed to and experiments from around the
to unmoor themselves from what secure a successful future in an world and the aim is to assemble
they know and tackle the challenges uncertain era: their leaders. global evidence about which policies
required to move into a better future. Maybe this is happiness redefined for are likely to be most effective in
the digital age: the Age of Disruption. enabling better lives.

Do you doubt this?

Then consider the following: what Olivier Oullier is a neuroscientist,
utterly contented overweight person
succeeds at a diet? What self- strategist and expert on healthcare
satisfied 98-pound weakling sweats and consumer behaviour. He is the
over barbells? What teenager former Head of Strategy in Global
shrugging off bad grades and dim Health and Healthcare and member
prospects rolls up her sleeves and of the Executive Committee of the
launches into extra credit work? World Economic Forum who named
him a Young Global Leader. Olivier
A better word for the positive state is President at EMOTIV, which
of being that “happiness” is meant contributes to the effort to improve
to capture is some combination wellness in the workplace and brain
of nervous realism combined with health globally with personalised

And Finally........

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein had a great influence on the philosophy of science. It seems he also had a
good grasp on the philosophy of happiness. A note written by the great scientist containing advice on happy
living has sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $1.56m (£1.19m). Einstein gave the note to a courier in Tokyo
in 1922 instead of a tip. When the courier came to his room to make a delivery, he did not have any money to
tip him. However, Einstein had just heard that he had won the coveted Nobel Prize for physics and told the
messenger that, if he was lucky, the note would become valuable.

The signed note - using stationery of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo - contained one sentence, written in German:
"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that
comes with it." Now that the note has been sold, we can only hope that the buyer is happy with their decision.

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