A life that doesn’t provide radiant happiness may not be worth living according to Skrikumar Rao. Happiness is not from what we have or what we do. He claims that happiness is in our DNA. That claim may seem counterintuitive. Watch on for a surprising explanation of how we undermine our genetic inheritance towards happiness.
Without calling it mindfulness he offers mindfulness as an alternative to what I call the “contingent self” and he calls the “if-then” mental model.