Often my Sunday night treat is to watch a couple of TED Talks (www.ted.com). TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design; speakers from all walks of life present a no more than 20 minute talk. These talks are fascinating and cover anything from comedy, to how to convert a system that is running cars on petrol to one that runs them on electricity.
Lisa sent me this link late last night and I didn’t wait for Sunday night to come round to listen to it. It is a talk by Chip Conley called “measuring what makes life worthwhile”. And yes, it is about Happiness stuff. Chip is a successful hotel owner in the USA and has built his business on creating the conditions in his hotel chain for happiness to occur. His bio says he creates joyful hotels!
He speaks about how its time for us (actually we are overdue on this) to create an alternative definition of success – in our own lives as well as business and more importantly, as nations. It is called GNH (Gross National Happiness) as opposed to GDP. This concept and measurement index was started some 30 odd years ago by the young king of Bhutan and is slowly spreading across the world. The index is now being used by 40 countries. He shows a slide of what, as countries, we should be measuring – this list being taken from a talk given by Robert Kennedy all those years ago – 40 years ago? It's something we should demand of all our politicians.
Have a listen: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/chip_conley_measuring_what_makes_life_worthwhile.html
I found the mood map of South Africa (13th April 2010) on http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2010/04/08/see-the-grids-mood-map-on-etv-each-morning/ IYou can see the “mood” on eTV. Look at the % for Gauteng…..
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