The presentation is about the difficulty of achieving happiness. The author tries to describe the factors that make people happy. He presents a phone application called trackyourhappiness that tracks emotions throughout the day. The results show that mind-wandering makes people more unhappy than when they focus on the present moment.
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–an increased interest in…
–debate remains unsolved…
–In fact,
–there has been an explosion in research on…
–to have a particularly strong effect
–differences tend to be small
–something has the potential to…
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–more data has even been collected...
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