Fred is an incredible human being. He is a genius. He is kind, caring and compassionate. He is a wonderful part of our universe. He also loves the Yankees!

Its how I got out of depression. Because it's not hard to be happy... it just takes thought, motive, want, effort. But it takes less of all that than dealing with negative in your life.

Aw, Fred, after 25 years of trying to work with precepts and research of yours, i must still return, and return again. I think of the old Upanishad mentioning that "the universe is composed of Delight", and vaguely recognize that the universe, ever-dynamical, always changing, is composed of Eagerness. That is certainly what seems to drive the contingent not crazily, but selected mutational success of DNA in us biological creatures. So. Eagerness for change. That tends to have made me happy, EXCEPT for areas in which i resented, or feared, and thus fail[ hopefully, -ed, but am not sure] to change. I'm SURE that we all have to return more often to your, Fred, research results and discoveries, than we do. I remain MORE eager to return, each time some perceived injury occurs. Best to get here FIRST, before self-inducing anything other than happiness.

Getting things done (to do lists) gives you an great sense of satisfaction! Provided that you dont only put things on a list you detest.

This also reminds me that too many people don't even have the resources many of us have so easily for survival.

I have seen many happiness talks - this is the best so far. Thank you for posting this. Stay Happy!

thank you Dr Fred luskin

Thank you, we (us) need more of this.

AWESOME! Thank you for affirming my beliefs. I do public speaking about How We Beat Diabetes. . I can not wait to meet each group who come to classes. I know they will be my friends. I will find something in common, something I can help them with, something that connects us. I greet each one with a handshake. When they leave, I am there to give each one a sincere long hug. I absolutely love what I do. I have a passion for helping people and in the process I am a happier person. :D

The air between us connects us rather than separates us.

God bless you thank you for making judaism be understood in a simpel way, and the way to become happy is through being gratefull and kind.

what a great and fascinating talk, thanks fred!

As a person with paranoid schizophrenia I am not just my illness. I have many good relationships including a 30 year marriage and many great friends. Untreated schizophrenia is problematic for relations with others because it precludes trust in others. I have fought to keep my faith in humanity even when in episodes when I am not feeling well. My Dad fought for freedom in the second world war and I make it my business to make the world a better place. I have written two books, was a professional speaker and was part of a project to standardize treatment for people with psychosis which is being adopted world wide(ICHOM standard set for psychosis). All that to say it is okay to be friends with someone with paranoid schizophrenia. We would welcome the chance to have human connection in a world where we are misunderstood.

Thank you.

thank you

Freakin Fred Rocks!!!

Thank you for this insightful and thought-provoking experience.

Just Fantastic! Loved the meditation! Well Delivered, thought provoking! Liked the bit on personal relationships. Some Shop for friends, and relationships like they're going to the mall! Really interesting that Happiness, as a course of study is gaining in such popularity as to fill classrooms, as if again, happiness is something to "get", when essentially its an internal job.

20:25: Consumerism has turned us into people in a state of perpetual discontent, which has increasingly spilled over in other parts of our lives. George Carlin criticized the increasingly meaningless choices we regularly confront which eat up more and more of our time. But, when it comes to truly important, long term matters we only have the illusion of choice.

THANK YOU

He made interesting points..

Love this!

Great presentation from scientific perspective. We ought to get out of the material threadmill and think about this material !

33:47 - This makes a difference, I believe.

Amazing, thank you! I would like to know more about this project.

He wants people to be more compassionate and more helpful to other people. Maybe we would be happier if we helped ourselves more.

This seems to be pop psychology. There is something to be said for the notion that happiness is just a fleeting emotion, i.e. that people, via evolution, are actually not wired for happiness, because to be survivors, we need to be concerned/worried about anticipating and getting through future challenges. Perhaps that is the allure of drugs which artificially conjure up an ersatz state of happiness.

his compassion meditation is what prayer is, as modelled by Jesus every day of his life, 'love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself."

What are pathways to happiness

ye ye ye ye ye yes ie ie ie it it it was a very helpful guide.

You know, I think people need to learn how not to have or need or go to or speak at lectures. I mean, the man himself said he prepared between the car park and the podium (well, the chair). I guess that makes him clever, seriously... I am not being sarcastic. It seems to be a happy habit for these lecturers to say something like that these days... e.g., "I just read the spiel and I am supposed to talk about..." Maybe life is very, very ordinary... so why do we need to talk about it in so many "uni lectures"? It's like going to church to hear the same cycle of stuff over and over... sermon junkies. Seriously, save your breath! Save your time... for nothing, to do nothing, nothing is okay, emptiness (even if it is the nothingness of oneness/no-differentiation kind of nothingness/no objectivity actually)... save the electricity... peel potatoes, kiss your mother, clip your nails, brush your dog's hair... No offence! Not at all, but let it all go... stop trying... running after the pearl which is right between the eyes... right were you can't see it. ! There is no answer because there is no problem... except our projections of need, illusions... Don't try to be happy in a world in which everything fades away... THAT is the point! Everything fades away. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity... That is it! This is it! The problems are the illusions too so the answers to the illusions are illusions, nothingnesses. The craving for it all to be something more significant is the nonsense. At 66 years of age, I was saying to my self, "What was the significance I fought and "died" for (inside) so many times in life. "The science of happiness?" Are you kidding me? I know we need the waste and illusions of innovation to keep the waste of academics going, but really, it is a treadmill, isn't it? ' trouble is it is a job, and for some it has tenure... and this TED talk kind of chat with the guru on stage thing is wearing thin... Life is really a matter of "Just do it!" and if it is not there to be done, be with yourself... in silence, or worship. But the academic treadmill is a business, isn't it? also based on the illusions of silly economic constructs that do not equate with the character of things as they are? This business of academics, the industry of academics demands innovation so that means it always demands that the last innovations were, after all, inadequate and must be shown to be flawed so the new generation can be right(er) and get their credentials. This is not progress, it is the cyclic foolishness of humanity and of human effort. Positive Psych points in one important direction, but I doubt many if any are really prepared for it... oneness, actual communion, silence and the emptiness of non-objectivity where there is no movement, nothing to be said, nothing to be done... and thus all potential is before it... frightening, actually, for we who are conditioned as we are to need, must, ought and should just to maintain this kind of self, this violent distinction. We are addicted to the violence of need which is the violence of differentiation. And this kind of multipal-ism is essential to the value system underlying everything that is going on in academics no less than in Monsanto, manufacturing corporations and the egg farm down the road. What is that point beyond material (self) aggrandisement... ultimately it has something to do with "I am not"... notself... etc... anyway... The brass bugles sound... loudly... and the audiences turn up, and I too listen... but why? Well at least I am aware of this, that progress seems to be deconstruction, dismantling, building down rather than building up, adding to, fragmenting and certainly rather than running around in academic circles and cunningly finding another innovation that adds to this pointless inertia or merry-go-round-ism. Go love something, someone, some god. Stop talking. Silence. Nothingness. Peace. Live with yourself for a month. In short, love as a theory, love as a technique, love as a science is nonsense... but perhaps it can be a product variously package and turned into a uni course... to name one industry. Yes. How come we prefer love as a theory, as a technique and as a science or a sermon to just doing love, without a word, without a reward, without a record of it?

I found nothing wrong with what he had to say.

as a psychologist, i don't agree with his definition of a psych.

haha, high priest of woe, haha