Name: 幸せの秘訣 (The secret to happiness)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:08:12.000Z
Duration: 19 min 46 s
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If I do my job in the next few minutes I'm going to give you the secret to happiness

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so that when you go home tonight you can start living a happier life

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and you can start sharing with more people so that they can have

a happier life too. So let's start with what we know about happiness.

There have been hundreds, literally hundreds, of studies

by economists and social scientists and psychologists about happiness,

hundreds over the past thirty and forty years. And basically they all start by

In the United States we know that all the way back to the 1970s a

very stable proportion of the population is very happy.

About a third of Americans say anonymously

and in accurate tests an accurate surveys that they're very happy people.

Okay, we have no reason to doubt that this is true. A little over fifty percent say

about 10 to 15 percent of the population is chronically depressed and say they're

Okay now, that's actually not the most interesting question. The most

interesting question is what brings happiness.

And we know the answer to that too. It's three things,

And I'm going to tell you about all three, starting with genetics.

Now, a few years ago social scientists at the University of Minnesota

constructed a wonderful database that included seventy five pairs of identical

twins born between the mid-1930s and the mid 1950s.

Now they were separated at birth and adopted by separate families.

It's like a social scientist's dream it's almost as if the government had done this.

And at age 40 they were reunited and they were given a personality test, so

they were asked about the things that were going on their lives and the way that they

This is really interesting because you've got DNA carbon copies

of each other and they have different upbringings so you can net out the parts

that are nature and the parts that are nurture, statistically, and what did they find?

They found that 48 percent of their happiness is genetic. As a matter of fact they found that more

of their personality was genetic than they ever understood before. Forty percent of

forty percent of how you worship is genetic, so

this explains some things. Do you have someone in your life who is

chronically happy? Do you have a coworker who's happy all the time?

It's very irritating, by the way, and so it sometimes you wonder, that person is

What are they doing right? What's their secret? Their secret is

their DNA. Are you a grumpy person are you

dark and brooding. It's your DNA it's not your fault, you have lousy parents

is basically what it comes down to. So if that's the case

does it really matter what we do? The answer is yeah because if half of it is taken away

from you you better get the other half right.

Now forty-percent is genetic but there are other innate qualities, other innate

characteristics that are really important,

Who's happier, men or women? The answer is women.

Most studies, the overwhelming majority of studies, find that women are happier

Okay I mean it's too bad guys but I studied this myself and I find the same

thing. I've looked at the happiness of men and women by marital status.

K and what do we find? Married women are happier than married men,

single women are happier than single men, widowed women are way happier than widowed men.

Here's another interesting mystery: what's the average

unhappiest age in a man's life? I'd heard about this phenomenon forever, so have you,

this is the male mid-life crisis, right? When do you think it is?

45 it's 45 that is exactly right. 45 is the average unhappiest age in a man's life.

the trajectory of life for men is interesting and

sometimes a little sad. See, when you're in your twenties

and thirties the life recipe is actually kind of simple.

Life is like a super highway when you're in your twenties and thirties

if you want to get ahead and you want to have a better life and you want to be happier and more successful

just hit the gas. Just look for more money

and look for a better career and look for more promotions and it's simple.

The problem is on the superhighway guys get to age 45

"I think I'm on the road. I don't want to be on the superhighway, but

I can't stop because I've got the house payment and I've got all this stuff.

It's hard, I'll get hit or get in an accident if I stop, it'll be bad

Now, ok, next question: what do they want?

Staying on the same metaphor, what they want is to be on another road

that they picked themselves they want to be on a little dirt road

with a motorcycle on it where the driver is not wearing a helmet.

That's what they want so who's the guy on the motorcycle because the secret to happiness

is being the guy on a motorcycle without the helmet. So I want to know who he is.

Tell me about it. I know who he is. He is me.

And I'll tell you how it works. When I was 19,

I dropped out of college. Dropped out, kicked out,

I was a French horn player, that was all I wanted to do. I wound up in the Barcelona symphony

by my my late twenties. It was great, I love the music, I still love the music,

it's the best music ever written. Seems like a dream, right?

But I got a glimpse of my forty five year old self.

I got to look in the crystal ball, it was all the guys working with me,

who were usually 20-30 years older than me, who around 45 had

kind of lost their happiness and now they were drinking a little too much and their

marriages weren't so good and they didn't like the music so much.

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