Investing in process not outcome
On March 8, 2010
Today I watched a great video in TED talks from Srikumar Rao about the ‘Plug in to your hard-wired happiness.’ I feel like he is talking the whole truth of this life. Actually in our life we are always seeking happiness because we feel we are not happy. Every day every time in every event we are seeking it and we are expecting it. But as Roa says the happiness is hard-wired with us not with any outside person or activity. But we don’t know that because we are just packed with if-then model. As Roa says the if-then model is like we are always thinking if this happens I will be happy. For example if I become a multi milliner then I will be happy, if I win the race I will be happy, if I pass the exam I will be happy like that.
So the Roa says that we are mostly investing in the outcome which is beyond our control rather than investing in process. So it’s good to make our happiness depend on a thing which is under our control that is investing in process. Then if you achieve the outcome you will be happy and even you don’t achieve it still you are happy. Roa is giving a good example like this. When we are going to the nature we are happy. For example by looking at a rainbow we feel happy. But we don’t feel like if the rainbow will rise in south region then I will be happy. Because we know it’s beyond our control and we accept the nature for a while and happy.
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