mm well if today I had to talk on what
makes me happy it would be quite easy it
would be just sufficient to say to be
with you at the TEDx this is really a
great experience but but I have a more
difficult task so more in general I
shall try to explain to you to uncover
what makes happy people and this is not
going to be easy but the first question
is what is happiness I think there is
one specific poem that can help us out
in this it says I ask God to give me
happiness and God said no he said he
gives blessings happiness is up to me so
we will have many blessings but
sometimes we don’t realize it or we
don’t consider them blessings he took
also some time to me to understand what
was the real meaning how important it
was to me my country Italy and what is
represented in my life so as Italian
ambassador my task is to represent my
country and I think I think this is a
great privilege I often meet new people
and when I meet new people they say I’ve
been to your country I visited your
country it’s a wonderful country you are
lucky and I think indeed I am so I will
try to go through some some blessings
and I’m sure that you will find what I
say really applicable also to your
country
and I think these blessings that I will
mention can really contribute to to our
happiness at least this is what they did
for me so I hope it will work out also
for you but before I start because I
will take as an example Italy but before
I start I need to know a little bit more
about you so how many of you have been
to Italy please raise your hand
okay I’m happy you see I’m even happier
to see all this so if you if so many of
you if I could have said how many of you
have been more times and with two hands
and that that would be a lot wonderful
wonderful wonderful and I think if
you’ve been to to Italy let’s say so
many times or so many of you if not all
of you I think because you wanted to to
spend some pleasant time and then be
happy so what is one particular beauty
that can be referred to a country its
beauty and of course beauty can be seen
after under different aspects on the
different forms you can think of art you
can think of landscape and if you if you
live or if you visit Italy Italy if very
very likely that you will find yourself
in a place with a lot of history behind
and with a lot of artistic tradition and
just to give you an example I show this
this small town this small town is one
of the many that wonderful cities
villages I wouldn’t say city it’s really
a village that you find in central Italy
they are all well preserved medieval and
this is cheetah della Pieve it’s in
Umbria and that’s where I was born and
the house you see on the right it’s my
house in cheetah della pietà Xochitl
Adela PLA is is known in Italy mainly
not only because it’s a wonderful
village but because there was a famous
painter called Perugino who was born
there and of course what you see here is
one of his masterpieces one of his
paintings which is in Citadella period
and the reason why I show this to you
but it’s a wonderful painting first of
all of course but you can see on the
back this wonderful landscape and that
was how the landscape were represented
in the Renaissance time and it’s not
very different today
to be honest with you but if you look at
this landscape I think you immediately
have a sense of peacefulness and harmony
but also if you think for a while on how
these masterpieces were done and I think
if you if you reflect on this you will
you will find that it’s not very
different from the technique that we
should adopt in building a happy life
such a masterpiece is done one
brushstroke at the time it takes time
takes patience some time you make errors
and then you have to correct them think
about it and you will realize that this
is how we should go about in pursuing
happiness but let’s move now to to
another blessing that we have in Italy
and I think we are most famous for hymns
for I’m not really reading you any
secret if I talk about food so in Italy
we have an incredible variety of typical
food from region to region from city to
city from even from village to village
you will find different food this is an
example you can see here Italian cheeses
well we have in Italy the estimate is
that we have in Italy 600 different
Italian chases out of which 50 are the
so-called protected designation of
origin and again I think no surprise if
I tell you that more or less the same
applies to wine we have a wide variety
of wine and if I tell you Chianti if I
tell you Rosso di Montalcino I tell you
Barbera Pinot or Prosecco I think you
all have had this hopefully on your
table this is why good wine accompanies
always good food they go together maybe
this explains why in Italy you find
260,000 wine producers I think it’s a
it’s a quite wide variety that you have
but of course if you think of food of
Italy there is another element which
comes to your mind I’m sure and this is
pasta this quote by Federico Fellini you
all know dolce vita automat so very
famous but he said life is a combination
of magic and pasta so magic there’s
something magicals in what you eat if
you really if you really enjoy it and of
course you have to consider that a
balanced and varied diet it’s really
essential for a healthy body and a happy
life and what is better than the
Mediterranean diet to have you know a
varied diet and I think it’s not by
chance that this Mediterranean diet has
been included into the list of
intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO
so in fact it’s called intangible but if
you think of pasta I think it’s very
tangible but of course you have other
blessings that we should consider on on
top of art and good food another
blessing sadly it’s it’s weather and I
think little is also appreciated for
this we have plenty of sunshine and we
have different seasons and I think we we
all agree that when when the sun is
shining outside we can go walk we all
feel much better and that makes quite a
difference and at the same time I think
the body really needs the to experience
the cycle of nature know the different
seasons and of course when when I when I
when I think of of seasons it
immediately comes to my mind
and also one very famous piece of music
okay this is called four seasons it’s by
Antonio Vivaldi it’s a famous Venetian
composers of the 17th century and it’s
again it’s not by chance that’s such a
wonderful piece it’s entitled to Four
Seasons I’ve always loved music that’s
why I wanted to share it with you and I
think music it’s listen to music can
lift your spirits it can really you can
really help a lot and we have a great
tradition in Italy not only in classical
music but also in opera and and also we
have this tradition in traditional
popular songs so
[Music]
how many of you recognize this this
start try it why well more than I
expected if it is true I’m very happy or
just you’re doing this for making me
happy but anyway this is this is also
Lamia
it’s a traditional Napolitan song of the
19th century is one of the most paid for
most famous Italian traditional songs
and of course this is related to Naples
but the reason why I want to you to
listen to it is that when you start
listening to this kind of music it
immediately makes you smile it makes you
feel better and it makes you feel or
think immediately of Italy or or Naples
in particular so this is the best proof
I think down how music can affect your
your mood and how it can move your
emotions and in this case make you also
think about a specific country but now I
want to show you another little secret
which is related to the Italian way of
of happiness and in another element that
I think influences how we feel it’s how
we see ourselves how other people see
ourselves and of course if they
appreciate our style for example we feel
better so I’m sure that now you’re all
looking at the way I’m dressed because
what I’m going to introduce it’s another
blessing which is fashion and I think
Italians are well known for you know the
attention that they they put in the way
they dress and if you walk down the
street and you see group of people
tourists you don’t listen to them
otherwise it’s easy you listen to the
Italian too easy but you just watch them
I think you can immediately spot those
who are Italians and you
it just looking at the way they move and
and their stylish outfits so we talked
about art whether food music elegance
and as I said at the beginning these are
all important factors and they are part
of the Italian Way of life but you can
find them in any country in many
countries so but that doesn’t certainly
mean that all the people who live under
those conditions are happy so why why
this we haven’t I think again we can use
a quote to help us out a little bit this
is a quote by Marcus Aurelius he was a
Roman Emperor and philosopher that’s why
I say this of the second century after
Christ and he said no the happiness of
your life depends upon the quality of
your thoughts so happiness depends on
you happiness depends on all of us but
so again what is the essential element
at the core of living a happy life I
think we can really enjoy what we have
and what has been given to us only if we
appreciate it so I think you should look
carefully around you and always remember
to count your blessings this is the best
bet for reaching happiness thank you
know about Daria
makes me happy it would be quite easy it
would be just sufficient to say to be
with you at the TEDx this is really a
great experience but but I have a more
difficult task so more in general I
shall try to explain to you to uncover
what makes happy people and this is not
going to be easy but the first question
is what is happiness I think there is
one specific poem that can help us out
in this it says I ask God to give me
happiness and God said no he said he
gives blessings happiness is up to me so
we will have many blessings but
sometimes we don’t realize it or we
don’t consider them blessings he took
also some time to me to understand what
was the real meaning how important it
was to me my country Italy and what is
represented in my life so as Italian
ambassador my task is to represent my
country and I think I think this is a
great privilege I often meet new people
and when I meet new people they say I’ve
been to your country I visited your
country it’s a wonderful country you are
lucky and I think indeed I am so I will
try to go through some some blessings
and I’m sure that you will find what I
say really applicable also to your
country
and I think these blessings that I will
mention can really contribute to to our
happiness at least this is what they did
for me so I hope it will work out also
for you but before I start because I
will take as an example Italy but before
I start I need to know a little bit more
about you so how many of you have been
to Italy please raise your hand
okay I’m happy you see I’m even happier
to see all this so if you if so many of
you if I could have said how many of you
have been more times and with two hands
and that that would be a lot wonderful
wonderful wonderful and I think if
you’ve been to to Italy let’s say so
many times or so many of you if not all
of you I think because you wanted to to
spend some pleasant time and then be
happy so what is one particular beauty
that can be referred to a country its
beauty and of course beauty can be seen
after under different aspects on the
different forms you can think of art you
can think of landscape and if you if you
live or if you visit Italy Italy if very
very likely that you will find yourself
in a place with a lot of history behind
and with a lot of artistic tradition and
just to give you an example I show this
this small town this small town is one
of the many that wonderful cities
villages I wouldn’t say city it’s really
a village that you find in central Italy
they are all well preserved medieval and
this is cheetah della Pieve it’s in
Umbria and that’s where I was born and
the house you see on the right it’s my
house in cheetah della pietà Xochitl
Adela PLA is is known in Italy mainly
not only because it’s a wonderful
village but because there was a famous
painter called Perugino who was born
there and of course what you see here is
one of his masterpieces one of his
paintings which is in Citadella period
and the reason why I show this to you
but it’s a wonderful painting first of
all of course but you can see on the
back this wonderful landscape and that
was how the landscape were represented
in the Renaissance time and it’s not
very different today
to be honest with you but if you look at
this landscape I think you immediately
have a sense of peacefulness and harmony
but also if you think for a while on how
these masterpieces were done and I think
if you if you reflect on this you will
you will find that it’s not very
different from the technique that we
should adopt in building a happy life
such a masterpiece is done one
brushstroke at the time it takes time
takes patience some time you make errors
and then you have to correct them think
about it and you will realize that this
is how we should go about in pursuing
happiness but let’s move now to to
another blessing that we have in Italy
and I think we are most famous for hymns
for I’m not really reading you any
secret if I talk about food so in Italy
we have an incredible variety of typical
food from region to region from city to
city from even from village to village
you will find different food this is an
example you can see here Italian cheeses
well we have in Italy the estimate is
that we have in Italy 600 different
Italian chases out of which 50 are the
so-called protected designation of
origin and again I think no surprise if
I tell you that more or less the same
applies to wine we have a wide variety
of wine and if I tell you Chianti if I
tell you Rosso di Montalcino I tell you
Barbera Pinot or Prosecco I think you
all have had this hopefully on your
table this is why good wine accompanies
always good food they go together maybe
this explains why in Italy you find
260,000 wine producers I think it’s a
it’s a quite wide variety that you have
but of course if you think of food of
Italy there is another element which
comes to your mind I’m sure and this is
pasta this quote by Federico Fellini you
all know dolce vita automat so very
famous but he said life is a combination
of magic and pasta so magic there’s
something magicals in what you eat if
you really if you really enjoy it and of
course you have to consider that a
balanced and varied diet it’s really
essential for a healthy body and a happy
life and what is better than the
Mediterranean diet to have you know a
varied diet and I think it’s not by
chance that this Mediterranean diet has
been included into the list of
intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO
so in fact it’s called intangible but if
you think of pasta I think it’s very
tangible but of course you have other
blessings that we should consider on on
top of art and good food another
blessing sadly it’s it’s weather and I
think little is also appreciated for
this we have plenty of sunshine and we
have different seasons and I think we we
all agree that when when the sun is
shining outside we can go walk we all
feel much better and that makes quite a
difference and at the same time I think
the body really needs the to experience
the cycle of nature know the different
seasons and of course when when I when I
when I think of of seasons it
immediately comes to my mind
and also one very famous piece of music
okay this is called four seasons it’s by
Antonio Vivaldi it’s a famous Venetian
composers of the 17th century and it’s
again it’s not by chance that’s such a
wonderful piece it’s entitled to Four
Seasons I’ve always loved music that’s
why I wanted to share it with you and I
think music it’s listen to music can
lift your spirits it can really you can
really help a lot and we have a great
tradition in Italy not only in classical
music but also in opera and and also we
have this tradition in traditional
popular songs so
[Music]
how many of you recognize this this
start try it why well more than I
expected if it is true I’m very happy or
just you’re doing this for making me
happy but anyway this is this is also
Lamia
it’s a traditional Napolitan song of the
19th century is one of the most paid for
most famous Italian traditional songs
and of course this is related to Naples
but the reason why I want to you to
listen to it is that when you start
listening to this kind of music it
immediately makes you smile it makes you
feel better and it makes you feel or
think immediately of Italy or or Naples
in particular so this is the best proof
I think down how music can affect your
your mood and how it can move your
emotions and in this case make you also
think about a specific country but now I
want to show you another little secret
which is related to the Italian way of
of happiness and in another element that
I think influences how we feel it’s how
we see ourselves how other people see
ourselves and of course if they
appreciate our style for example we feel
better so I’m sure that now you’re all
looking at the way I’m dressed because
what I’m going to introduce it’s another
blessing which is fashion and I think
Italians are well known for you know the
attention that they they put in the way
they dress and if you walk down the
street and you see group of people
tourists you don’t listen to them
otherwise it’s easy you listen to the
Italian too easy but you just watch them
I think you can immediately spot those
who are Italians and you
it just looking at the way they move and
and their stylish outfits so we talked
about art whether food music elegance
and as I said at the beginning these are
all important factors and they are part
of the Italian Way of life but you can
find them in any country in many
countries so but that doesn’t certainly
mean that all the people who live under
those conditions are happy so why why
this we haven’t I think again we can use
a quote to help us out a little bit this
is a quote by Marcus Aurelius he was a
Roman Emperor and philosopher that’s why
I say this of the second century after
Christ and he said no the happiness of
your life depends upon the quality of
your thoughts so happiness depends on
you happiness depends on all of us but
so again what is the essential element
at the core of living a happy life I
think we can really enjoy what we have
and what has been given to us only if we
appreciate it so I think you should look
carefully around you and always remember
to count your blessings this is the best
bet for reaching happiness thank you
know about Daria
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