Find Your Best Possible Self
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Does imagining your future make you more happy--or more anxious? Our happiness guinea pig looks ahead for inspiration to improve her life now.
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| 0:45.8 | When I was in India, you know as soon as we got on the metro, it was just like all eyes |
| 0:51.7 | on me. To be young and to be a black woman and to feel unseen for so |
| 1:00.0 | much of my life and not really noticing that I was unseen to just kind of be thrust in a place |
| 1:05.7 | where you are. |
| 1:06.7 | You're already different in the United States, but it's like, you know, people just look |
| 1:10.0 | past you and here everyone is looking at you and so there was just so much more going on in my head so much more chatter at the same time you can be free in a different country There's something that happens mentally |
| 1:23.3 | that allows you to also become a different person |
| 1:27.7 | and think about all the different ways that you can be. |
| 1:31.2 | While I was there, Beyonce's self-tidal visual album had just come out. I had |
| 1:36.1 | gone to the cafe because they had faster internet than I had at home and I had downloaded |
| 1:40.5 | the whole album and then I came home and I walked straight into my room, got on my bed and opened up my laptop and then hit play and it was just it was something that I had been missing that I didn't even know I missed, you know? |
| 1:57.3 | And it was like the colors and the dancing and the music and just, it was a feeling of inspiration. I felt so much power and |
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