Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness

What do you have to get in order to be happy? 

Professor Srikumar Rao suggests anything you can get, you can "un-get," so relying on getting things or experiences to be happy is a losing proposition.

He says there is nothing you have to get, do or be in order to be happy.  In fact, happiness is our innate nature, hard-wired into us, part of our DNA.

We cannot NOT be happy. 

If that's true, then why aren't we all experiencing happiness now?  Rao suggests we've spent our entire life learning to be unhappy, and the way we learn to be happy is to buy into a particular mental model.

Part 2: the role of actions and outcomes (and what we can control); how we define our lives.

Professor Rao suggests investing in the process rather than the outcome: