The Formula to Happiness | Sofia Khaledi | TEDxYouth@WIS

What's the formula for happiness? We first need to define what it is.The dictionary fails to describe it."Happiness is the state of being happy" and "happy" is "feeling or showing pleasure or contentment" and what we do is suspend all the thoughts we don't like in order to think we're happy and it doesn't cause the longterm feeling of happiness. One way we suspend our unhappy thoughts is by spending a large amount of our time on social media. Our brain stops thinking and we enter a different dimension causing us to pay less attention to what makes us truly happy and disregard the significance of it. What's the formula for happiness? We first need to define what it is.The dictionary fails to describe it."Happiness is the state of being happy" and "happy" is "feeling or showing pleasure or contentment" and what we do is suspend all the thoughts we don't like in order to think we're happy and it doesn't cause the longterm feeling of happiness. One way we suspend our unhappy thoughts is by spending a large amount of our time on social media. Our brain stops thinking and we enter a different dimension causing us to pay less attention to what makes us truly happy and disregard the significance of it. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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