I have the jitters to excite
with you tonight he was 20 years old I had
a crisis of happiness and little by little
it led me to understand that everyone
of us could be a little bit
joy and happiness for the world
today we are fifteen thousand
yet we are not a cult
I will tell you the story of
movement of happiness citizens and the
rather happy then when I was 22
years I was a consultant in strategy
i loved xl i was all the time
in front of an excellent the most beautiful
software of never done then time in
time I happen to have a little bit
hot i needed to get up
there was lying to my comrades I do not know
what’s going on but there I am super
happy that happened to me to laugh when I
felt a little silly I know
no where it came from and a priori
I had a biochemical imbalance
a bipolarity but just the top of the
curve like a depression but to
upside
so I thought I’ll organize
happy dinners to understand
where does it come from with thomas
Benedict and his 25 friends
the treasure I put a more beautiful
photo is it a head when
even if it’s not us and we
this is boozing by train
to explore happiness with a speaker
once every few months and at
ask us
and then once I remember this
first this picard ruth ginhoven who we
put a slap of happiness told us
you know the year the worst in a
couple is the year of the birth of the
first child
wow I come back to have one of these
four with our enemies it hurts and
at the same time taking a step back
actually that year we are at
mill oven
we have less social life we are a
little bit of trouble we can not do everything
conjugate together and why is this
that I share this learning
because I told myself obviously he
this is not so much statistics to
the support of not wanting to have
child but then everything is said is this
that at the same time that I have joy
to be parents I can prepare myself for
all these jolts of life and its
hours
a young dad then what I learned
also on this occasion
Well, that’s the relation to happiness
reveals something and I especially
saw people who told me ah no me
happiness never that interests me
not never and I say to myself is this
do not hide something in the image of
someone who would not want to
ask how do I go in
my life there is a nurse in the center of
palliative care who did a study
incredible which is called the regrets of the
dying she realized that
first regret when we are on the
point of dying
it is to have lived one’s life according to a
footsteps of others do
to wonder about his happiness is not
a way to maybe and well take
the right way and vice versa
I saw that on the other side of the spectrum
you had people who had a
obsessive relationship to happiness the
happiness becomes an obligation
and yet it should not be
this obsession let alone this
injunction is again studies at the
rain people who are overly
concerned about their happiness and well
are less happy than others
a little to the picture you know from this book
the elegance of the hedgehog or one of the
female characters
well we’re having a big party 20
years to celebrate his 20 years of
psychoanalysis is what I’m happy
am I happy am I
am being happy is what
I’m doing everything he’s doing
must be happy no I think that
the right relationship to happiness is a
aspiration something that guides us
and this idea started to sprout and
I thought, could not we
not bring this aspiration into the
society to the public authorities in the
schools etc
and then during these dinners what has
been the trigger to go beyond
of these gatherings with friends
it’s the discovery that he had a
science of happiness neuroscience
positive psychology economics
happiness all his knowledge and
one of them has marked me in the
life people who grant of
the importance to love are more
happy so well I’m married to
four months so that’s fine with me
information and for all
hindsight we are not saying that
people who are in love or
happy in their relationship are more
happy in life we are in the process of
to say that people who grant
the importance to love are more
happy in other words happiness
would also be related to where I
turn my look in life and then
maybe a trigger again
stronger to act beyond dinners
it was the discovery of the paradox
says stirling our nations are
arquebouted in the generation of
economic growth
and yet in France between 1973 and 2008
in 35 years the gdp has been multiplied by
two off inflation
and at the same time the level of
satisfaction of the French self
reported staying at 6 2 out of 10
or did we miss a walk and if
tone that we replace and happiness as
an aspiration of our society
so we gathered together with
comrades at the tavern ans by saying we’re going
to build a project but I meanwhile
received a few remarks a little muscular
from friends who told me my god
alexander this idea of associations on
tunes that’s what you can be
beast anyway it’s warm water
it has no foundation then in one that
told me oh there your idea of happiness the
society is dangerous
and there I have six pieces we hold
something then we searched for a name
in this cafe that burned since that
do a little story like that and we
first imagined seized by demons
well, something very clear
categorical afp associations of
French for the promotion of happiness
atmosphere 80s boxes of btp
cogedim that I hit then we went
says no it’s because it takes and if we
was rather die monia happiness in
Greek then the a1 in 36 15 a little naughty
it did not go either and then we
remembered that France and this country
in which is good of all europe
we give more importance to the
hierarchy to status to standard
so we named ourselves the spinoza factory
in tribute philosopher the think tank
Happiness reflection laboratory
citizens and then we started to
conquer our masters of
nobility in working closed no ocde
the assembly the parliament the elysée
until being named one of the 12
French think tank
and then this little pride is a
day of submitting a report to which we
had contributed to françois hollande
on the positive economy in which
we had a proposal that was
and if we change the definition
even of a company
the company is a gathering of
people blah blah comma and who
contribute to the general interest
and if doing this by changing the
definition of a business have changed
the legal and economic daily of
all French
and then more recently our source of
pride is good it’s having
contributed to a proposed law
senate
this summer to institute the council
parliamentary evaluation of
public policies and wellbeing
in other words and if we did the
bet that every time a law is
drawn up and then voted
parliament
we wonder what is his
exact consequences in terms of
happiness on people and if the law on
the 35 hours had been considered in
economic term but also in terms
of happiness for people and then arrive
at this stage we said to you
use our head but it’s not
sufficient
our reports can stay on
shelves we will go further and
act use our body make
tools we began to build
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learning formations and one
of them that gives me a lot of
pride also
it’s the university of happiness at
work 120 people gathered
for three days and I’m seeing this again
businesswoman sitting in a corner
thoughtful
we approach her by asking her what
that you have well she answers with all my
life I have never felt so
free or this training or a
sir returning to his business
simple collaborator
good to be exact manager but not
top managers thinks well I’m going
build a complete plan in twelve pages
so that’s the cover that brings him to
its general manager in ten years we
let’s have a policy for
the flourishing of men in my
business then thousands
companies from which we
have acted again gives us the
pride and so far we started to
to tell yourself that something was missing
between us there was friction
detention and I remembered
this thought of the luz is that which says
does not try to impact the world so much
that you did not even grow up there
we had to start working on
our accounts it our heart and so we
was said to create mini training of
nonviolent communication for
learn to be caring between
we and today we ambitionne
to become a community
look at those pretty faces of people from the
manufactures spinoza and we think we think
that doing this by transforming us
we can act on the world
is what gives us faith in that this
are the mirror neurons these famous
neurons that do that when I
transmit an emotion you hear it
and you feel what the price
nobel
golman calls the neural wifi and who
connect us
it’s so powerful as
phenomenon only if I’m happy
figures to support people around
me and even friends of my friends have
themselves more likely to be
happy to take an example of that
that inspired me there is a chain
Canadian
tim hortons who gives vendee coffee and
which one of his opportunities
a customer is told that he has been told
offered the coffee that the customer before him
offered what decides to do
he offers coffee is the next too
how many times 228 times in a row
do you account for the
positive contagion potential then
arrived today we tell ourselves the
next thing daring to say that we
are the citizens happiness movement
it was this woman who told us I
discovered with the spinoza factory that
I was not
not only to believe that he was
possible to promote happiness is
today is a movement for
we are his head the think tank side
his actions his tools his lectures
the propulsion side and finally the side
emotional and heart I was searching
a text of act up in a very domain
different that inspired me that I have a
can I paraphrase I’ll read it with
you right now pessimism is a
sickness together we can unite our
forces to resist the epidemic
together we can build a
community able to adopt a
positive and constructive attitude to the
spinoza factory we chose
to affirm happiness as a challenge
you can raise it with us
today we act in the
fields of health democracy of
education of gender equality
of work and I have the joy of saying
really we are in four countries
we have about twenty cities
but above all we have a thousand smugglers
of citizens happiness and my invitation and
15,000 friends my invitation is the
next
you are not alone join us
join us at your ability to
reflection with your head with your
body you tools by acting or so
simply by being with your emotions
and so be a little happiness for the
world and this little happiness this
spark went well there I you
thank
[Applause]
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