Happyneiness host what is the role of technology in creating happiness . Guest well, i think the first thing is that technology is so much a part of our lives in one sense it has, to a certain extent, become us. Outside of the idea of cyborg questions of could we have a make limb that is wifi enabled, which is possible, the logic is the smart phones are a huge part of our lives and to ignore technology, i think for most of us, that is hard at a do. I read a study, i think was commissioned by the people at huffing post, that said of the woman surveyed in the study, 3,000 people, half of them said they would rather skip sex for a month than go without their smart phone. So my logic is lets acknowledge all of tools being used by advertise to track our life and make sure we are safe and recognize and study the patterns of wellbeing and mood and optimize or increase our hap happiness and not just our mood but our longterm wellbeing. Host how tracked are we . Guest all of time. I think it is
I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think tank president , Arthur Brooks. The former french hornist, tunnel social scientist, talks about his research on charity, happiness, and Free Enterprise. The head of the American Enterprise institute is the author of four nonfiction books, including New York Times bess sellers by Gross National happiness and the road to freedom. Arthur brooks, where did the phrase, Gross National happiness, come from . Guest the phrase comes from the government of beaut buttan, who 30 years ago read the process of
And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what were doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern industrialized society, is to affect this transfer as quickly as possible. To see how much carbon we can get out of the ground and put up into the air and how fast we can do it. And thats a look at some of the chicago tribunes top books for 2014. To link to the full list and to see other publications selections, visit booktv. Org. Okay, now its time for hillary. You wrote that she captured your attent
The government of bhutan, i should say the king of bhutan about 30 years ago realized that a process of development, of economic development, was great. It would pull millions of people out of poverty. People wouldnt starve to death, but it wasnt enough for human flourishing. So instead of counting narrowly the amount of money people had per capita, he had the idea of trying to measure the amount of happiness. He started an index called Gross National happiness. Thats wher he started an index called Gross National happiness. That is where the expression comes from. Host what did he find . Guest a lot of measures of Economic Growth are great and the determinate for living the good life but not sufficient so cultural integrity, family values, being able to maintain ones faith in god, these other things people need for flourishing lives and in so doing, developing country has a lot of lessons. Host can you measure happiness the economic success . Guest no. We can find predetermined for a
Afterwards except for Nicholson Baker who has to go off or go to his next session. Thank you so much. Lets have a round of applause for our panel. Booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Now that 2014 is coming to a close, many publications are releasing their endof the yearbook list. Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger is on the list with his take on International Affairs in world order. Then in the teacher wars, Dana Goldstein provides a history of Public School teaching. Jeff hobbs recounts the life and death of his former College Roommate in the short and tragic life of robert peace. Jo becker in forcing the spring, and in fire shut up in my bones, charles below recalls growing up in louisiana in the 1970s. One of the idiosyncrasies but also one of the beauties of small town america is that things kind of pass it by. And so you it is timeless in a way, and it