TED Talks Daily: Why joy is a state of mind | Angélique Kidjo and Femi Oke

Why joy is a state of mind | Angélique Kidjo and Femi Oke
TED Talks Daily

With infectious energy, singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo ties together the threads of her legendary career as a creative force and global activist. In conversation with journalist Femi Oke, she discusses how joy powers her music (and sings an incredible impromptu song), details her work spreading educational opportunities to women and girls across Africa and shares her belief that everybody has the power to tap into their potential.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-talks-daily/id160904630?i=1000590408558

A New Formula for Happiness

The happiness we seek can require investing earlier than we think—and may help us align our expectations and reality at the end of life.

...You need to take care of your body like you're going to need it for 100 years. And if you do that, you end up much more likely to be happy, as well as well. And that means exercise. It means eating well. It means when you can, get regular health care. Getting enough sleep.

But the second thing is a little more surprising; at least it was to us. And that's that the people who end up not just the happiest but the healthiest are the people who have more social connections and warmer social connections. Connections of all kinds—not just intimate partners, but friends and work colleagues and casual relationships. All of that adds up to a happier and healthier life as you get older...

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Happy dissolution

Willa Cather only wrote for two or three hours a day. She said, "If I made a chore of it, my enthusiasm would die," she said. "I make it an adventure every day."

Willa Cather's headstone reads, "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great." After her death, poet Wallace Stevens said, "We have nothing better than she is."

https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-december-7-2022/

Part of something broader

I'm learning this later in life, but happiness comes from having—or else finding or discovering—relationships and/ or groups and/or broader entities (eg humanity, nature, life) that you can learn how you are part of and contribute to. There isn't really anything else. https://infosec.exchange/@Suzyanalyst1/109444367169943664