Finding Happiness With A Tool Called LifeMapper - Quantified Self Tokyo - Oct 2012
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This is a presentation about my own search for happiness, and about program I made (LifeMapper) to give suggestions on what might be enjoyable. Event: http://www.meetup.com/Quantified-Self-Tokyo/events/82718442/
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Finding Happiness With A Tool Called LifeMapper - Quantified Self Tokyo - Oct 2012
- 1. Finding happiness ...with a tool called LifeMapper Jo n ath a n Wa ller
- 2. Self introduction • Jonathan Waller • In Japan for five years. • Developer, interested in happiness and personality
- 3. August 2007
- 4. August 2007 I was sad.
- 5. I wanted to be happy most of the time.
- 6. So I made a book.
- 7. So I made a book. FAB-ヒロズ見て、自分のサイトをして、友達と食べ物分けた - 2008/06
- 9. Then I came to Japan
- 10. So I studied.
- 11. Slow progress.
- 12. Exercise Diet Health Sleep No illness No pain
- 13. ? Family? ? Money? ? Happiness ? A hobby? ?
- 14. People seem happiest when they have: Martin Seligman - Pleasure (tasty foods, warm baths, etc.), - Engagement (or flow, doing something challenging) - Relationships (social ties), - Meaning (a quest or belonging to something bigger) - Accomplishments (having realised tangible goals).
- 15. Abraham Maslow Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- 16. “The Stoics maintain that happiness is living in accordance with Nature… Only that which is perfectly in accordance with nature as whole is truly perfect.” Seneca
- 17. Personality?
- 21. Are we unique?
- 22. Hmmm...
- 23. Life
- 25. What about Greek? Try painting! Life
- 26. Let’s try.
- 29. Snowboarding
- 31. Skiing Snowboarding Teaching mathematics
- 32. Skiing Baking Snowboarding Teaching mathematics
- 33. Playing chess
- 43. 10 points
- 44. 30 points.
- 45. 30 points..
- 46. 30 points...
- 47. Sounds good.
- 48. LifeMapper
- 50. DEMO 1
- 71. So I tried new activities:
- 73. What did I find?
- 74. Health is most important.
- 75. Health is most important. After that, a feeling of control...
- 76. Health is most important. After that, a feeling of control... But you must not forget...
- 78. If you do what you love, you are happy.
- 79. But wait!
- 80. You can choose to love.
- 81. So if you choose to love... you’re happy.
- 82. So if you choose to love... you’re happy. Simple as that. :)
- 83. THE END
- 84. research.tanos.co.uk jonwaller.net tanos.co.uk moodpanda.com
Editor's Notes
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- Game dev - CyberAgent\nrun personal development group\ninterested happiness, motivation, personality\n--- Ok, I’m going to tell you a story.\n\n
- I was working in London, well paid, but often unhappy.\n
- But I didn’t know what caused happiness. I wondered how I could make myself happier.\n
- Fab / awesome\nNotepad size - Fantastic times\nSee a pattern?\n
- I recorded many events, but I couldn’t see an obvious pattern, so gave up.\n
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- Even in Japan, I was still sometimes unhappy, so I got more academic.\nReading books, checking websites, meditation, personal dev \n
- Some things helped, but I felt stuck. \nI learnt health was the most important aspect. You can’t be happy without health.\n
- So the first step was good health. And I think if you cover these bases, your health is sorted. Great.\n
- But rest of happiness\nmystery\nSo I looked into theories for happiness.\n
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- Interesting. I think they are good to bear in mind. But a general life theory acts on everyone...\n
- But do we all\nrespond\nsame way?\nMaybe personality important?\nDoes what makes you happy depend on your personality?\n
- The Enneagram (Based on work by Gurdjieff)\n
- MBTI (Based on work by Carl Jung)\n
- The Big Five personality test ( Work of Costa & McCrae)\n\n
- But can we put everyone in one of 9, or 16 boxes? \nWhat happens if we’re all different? \n...and different things make us happy\n
- Hmmm...\n
- What I wanted was an app.\nSoftware to tell me:\n“Try this: You’ll like it”\nHow about painting, or learning greek? \n
- What I wanted was an app.\nSoftware to tell me:\n“Try this: You’ll like it”\nHow about painting, or learning greek? \n
- Well, I’m a developer, so I thought I’d try.\n
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- your happiness map\nshows your happiness for every possible activity\nshowb, skiing, x, x (close/far)\nIf area bright/dark\nBut you haven’t done everything, so you don’t know all\n
- your happiness map\nshows your happiness for every possible activity\nshowb, skiing, x, x (close/far)\nIf area bright/dark\nBut you haven’t done everything, so you don’t know all\n
- your happiness map\nshows your happiness for every possible activity\nshowb, skiing, x, x (close/far)\nIf area bright/dark\nBut you haven’t done everything, so you don’t know all\n
- your happiness map\nshows your happiness for every possible activity\nshowb, skiing, x, x (close/far)\nIf area bright/dark\nBut you haven’t done everything, so you don’t know all\n
- Only had 1 experience.\n
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- 30p 1\n
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- 30p 3\nBut this is spread evenly.\nNeed good suggestions\n
- Sounds good. So here’s my program:\n
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- I wasn’t very systematic, but I used it for ideas like rock climbing, cookery, dance.\n
- I tracked my happiness with moodpanda too.\n
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- Health / sleep\nControl / Self esteem\n
- Health / sleep\nControl / Self esteem\n
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- Hmmm\n
- (You don’t have to wait for joy to come, you can make it.)\n
- Hmmm\n
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- Questions, etc.\n
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