Not Sappy, Just Happy?: 陳一華 Tan Ee Wah at TEDxTaida

What is happiness? Unfortunately, I am not here to answer that today. From what I've heard, happiness means a lot of different things to many different people, so it will take a research paper to analyze even a tiny speck of it.
However, I do like to ask people around me if they are happy., and again, unfortunately, there are as many people who say no as there yes, and once unfortunately once more, those who say yes, upon further probing, will then say, well, actually no, they are not really happy. Why aren't they happy? Isn't happiness what we all strive to have? How can it be so difficult to achieve even after so much has been done? deriving from what little life experiences and many insightful conversations I have had, I hope to offer a little hint on what it takes to be happy, and perhaps after this presentation, you'll tell me you are when I ask.

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