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Part 3: I’m a tourist in my own life

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Is Happiness Overrated?
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We think about moving from spectator to actor in our own lives, away from autopilot using values and goals.

We then connect this with life-dilemmas which can bring challenges in the form of multiple choices, how do we know which way to go? 

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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 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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Is Happiness Overrated?
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Tim Knowlson
Keywords
loneliness
student life
isolation
behaviour change
authenticity
Department: Student Welfare and Support Services
Date Added: 08/01/2026
Duration: 00:15:43

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