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The Science of Happiness

Let People Help You

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In hard times, do you seek comfort from others or turn inwards? Find out how our Happiness Guinea Pig emerged from trauma by accepting others' support.

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0:00.0

We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

0:05.0

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

0:11.0

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

0:13.4

NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our

0:19.4

tech and our bodies.

0:21.2

Listen in the Ted Radio Hour feed wherever you get your podcasts.

0:24.8

I always had this drive to work with youth that didn't have the same opportunities

0:30.8

as others because I was that youth went through like a lot of

0:34.9

bullying and a lot of biases and slurs about my race and you know I had spent my

0:41.3

entire senior year in university studying cases like why do young people

0:47.0

Commit murder and it's usually because they sit in a lot of pain in themselves and I've always had so much empathy for kids that have

0:55.8

gone through so much trauma and harm and then they get treated with so much

1:01.2

punishment in life, whether that's in the criminal justice system or in our school system,

1:07.0

they never get a chance to get healed.

1:10.0

This was the work I always wanted to do.

1:12.0

I just never thought I'd be doing it in my brother's name.

1:18.0

My brother was working at a pizza place and he went to go deliver the last pizza of the night and he was surrounded

1:27.6

by a group of four gang members and they had called in a pizza order to a bogus address.

1:35.0

When he was heading back to his car, they ambushed him and one bullet took my brother's life.

1:42.0

It was a 14-year-old boy that took Tharks' life. It was a 14-year-old boy that took Tharic's life.

1:47.0

14-year-old Tony Hicks was the youngest person in California to be tried as an adult for murder for the murder of Tarekamisa.

1:55.0

In an extraordinary act of forgiveness and reconciliation, Tarek's father, Azim Camisa,

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