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The year 2020, it's hard to even think back on it, right?

It was so full of uncertainty and tragedy around the world.

But that year at TEDx Sydney, the work futurist dominant price gave a timely and still relevant

talk in which he asks, where does happiness actually come from?

And how do we find it even with death and destruction all around?

The talk on what really matters is coming up after the break.

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Hello, my name's Don Price and I'm a work futurist, which is a made up job that no one's

called me out on yet, but it's got me here on this day today.

My job's all about predicting the future, the future of work, society, the economy and

education, which is, you can show you can imagine, this year of all the years, it's been

pretty fascinating.

Now, there's a huge amount of self-help literature out there that will help you be happier over

time.

But today I want to talk to you specifically about being happy in a year like 2020.

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