Category: Pillars

A new plan for people and planet has just launched - the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Tell everyone! In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals (officially known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs). These goals have the power to create a better world by 2030, by ending poverty, fighting inequality... Read more

Richard Layard explains how we can move towards a kinder, happier, gentler society. Most people now realise that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems. Instead, we need a philosophy and a science which encompasses a much fuller range of human need and experience. This book argues that the goal for a... Read more

Happiness is something that everyone feels in a different way. If you had to measure happiness, what would you do? Pharrell Williams compared happiness to “a room without a roof,” and the Beatles sang that happiness is “a warm gun.” If you had to measure happiness, what would you do? Every year the scientists at... Read more

NOTE FROM TED: Please consult with a mental health professional and do not look to this talk for medical advice as the intersection of mental health and nutrition is still an emerging field of study. We've flagged this talk for falling outside TEDx's curatorial guidelines because it oversimplifies interpretations of legitimate studies. TEDx events are... Read more

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, as well as... Read more