Talk we gave on achieving wowness or conscious happiness at TEDxESADE Barcelona.

1. Achieving WOWNESS
Alex Barrera (@abarrera) April 2012 #wowness

2. What
is
Happiness?

3. many positive
few negative

4. Every culture is different

5. Pain - Run
Pleasure - Repeat

6. Pain - Do it again
Pleasure - don’t repeat

7. Pre-experience
&
Pre-feel

8. Pre-experience
Unrepresentative memories
& the yesterday)
(The good, the ugly,
Pre-feel

9. Pre-experience
Unrepresentative memories
& the yesterday)
(The good, the ugly,
Pre-feel
Memory sketches
(lack inessential features, language)

10. Pre-experience
Unrepresentative memories
& the yesterday)
(The good, the ugly,
Pre-feel
Memory sketches
(lack inessential features, language)
Simulation abbreviation
(focus on first moment)

11. Underestimate
adaptation

12. CONTEXT MATTERS!!

13. “Isolation effect”
Tversky (1972)

14. YES
YOUR BRAIN
FUCKS WITH
YOU

15. “Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power
to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

16. “The only constant thing in the universe is change”
Taoist proverb

17. Buddhist monk story...

18. Be humble
Ask for opinions

20. WOWness triangle
Emotional balance
(Social relations)
Professional balance Physical balance
(Love what you do) (Release energy)

23. SMILE AND BE HAPPY!
BE WOWASTIC!
Alex Barrera (@abarrera)
alex@press42.com