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Part 5: Why be happy when you can be real?

Here we pull everything together. Living fully and meaningfully is greater than happiness. At what cost do we chase and try to own happiness?
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Part 4: The Matryoshka Doll - is it really happiness or something else?

Tim tries to unpack the word happiness using the metaphor of the Matryoshka Doll, and wonders how it connects to the state of our world and the transience of experience.
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Part 2: How do we even define happiness? Stories of the mind and the secret director

Tim tries to define happiness and fails badly doing so. Sometimes definitions are confusing and need to be treated flexibly. Happiness as a label might not be so useful and is very contextual.
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Part 1: Introduction

This part sets the scene and manages expectations. It introduces attention to the mind and mindset. There’s a warning about multi-tasking and treadmills.
Futuremakers

Workplace wellbeing

Professor Lennox sits down with Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to look at what contributes to our wellbeing at work, and the evidence linking happiness and productivity.
Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia.

Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure?
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops

Happiness, Unhappiness, and Suffering

Hawkins is Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Trent Scholar in Bioethics at Duke University.
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Precarious outcomes to the Pursuit of Happiness: Lifestyle migration and liminality

Karen O'Reilly, University of Loughborough, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series
Uehiro Oxford Institute

1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children's Welfare

Anthony Skelton examines possible reasons why philosophers have neglected to discuss children's welfare. After outlining and evaluating differing views, a rival account is presented.

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