[Applause]
okay so first of all you guys have been
here for a really really long time you
guys saw some pretty amazing stuff you
guys want to see my best friend April
that was amazing you guys go to see
Nicole like I was blown away by that you
guys saw these two amazing speeches and
I’m just like I’m here to teach you guys
how to achieve happiness like Nicole
taught you guys had to become like the
next president United States I’ll tell
you guys how to do this so well I got to
do without it what I have right so this
is maximum happiness and it’s how to
achieve the maximum happiness and your
life you’re right there you’re the
supreme person right there maximum
happiness in your life right there all
right
so can asses this is oh yes okay so it’s
actually a science it’s known as
positive psychology and this science has
simply grown recently and it’s
completely exploded you see there’s a
whole bunch of books on it now a lot of
books on it now but the thing is if I
came up here and just say hey guys if
you want to be happy just read these
like 15 books none of you guys are gonna
do it right exactly so that’s what my
job is for you guys here today it’s how
to achieve maximum happiness without
these books now for me and probably for
you guys as a student achieving maximum
happiness means getting some good grades
right good grades leads to you know a
good University all right guys I’m gonna
wait so you guys settle down real quick
and a good university it’s going to lead
to me being the most powerful person in
the world I’m gonna be rich I gonna meet
wealthy I’m gonna own six islands this
is exactly how I want to live my life
but the question is is this actually
going to make me happy yes it is it’s
gonna make me happy I want only six
islands it’s but actually I took a class
by a teacher named mr. Park the gun in
my sophomore year if you guys had in the
next year it’s really easy to remember
his name he octagon talked about the
best teacher will ever have but he kind
of made me question whether or not this
is actually worth anything so I decided
to kind of go on a quest a little bit to
find out what real happiness is because
owning six islands is awesome and all
but I want to see just how far six
islands will take me so this is me right
there that’s me
this is me and Chyna and then I decided
to move to America now for me it was a
really really easy move but for my mom
it actually wasn’t for my mom that meant
that she had to leave all of her
security
she left her friends she left any sort
of just like belonging back in China and
it’s because of this that my mom
actually fell into almost 12 years now
of extreme depression this is to the
point where she had incredible medical
illnesses that just came out of nowhere
that we were just so bewildered by and
so when I was young I really wanted to
treat my mom but I was not a doctor by
any means and so I decided to ask my
best friend like the one closest to my
heart ask Google
thank you
alright alright so I asked Google how do
you be happy and Google responded to me
she said this is how to be happy always
with pictures happiness isn’t planning
on who you are what you have it depends
on what you think reduce complications
life is simple
and lastly understand balance okay that
did not make me happy at all
so I really wanted to find out what
scientifically it makes us happy because
simply googling this kind of question
doesn’t really bring us an accurate
answer and it does certainly doesn’t
make me feel happy I would rather to own
6 eyelids so I decided to go on a quest
for happiness and my sophomore and
junior year I just went on a year of
research and I discovered two categories
of happiness now the first category is
elation elation comes it’s short-term
and it’s very sudden such as winning a
jackpot or doing drugs now the second is
fulfillment and this is where true
and this is where true happiness as
opposed to come from these are the
people that you’re truly considered to
be happy who can somehow get through the
most toughest of things now of course
the school tells me that I’m not allowed
to tell you to do drugs so I’m gonna
tell you exactly why I doing drugs
annulation is bad because it’s something
that’s very very short-term it doesn’t
fill the hole within you doing drugs and
just becoming happy for that short term
period is not going to lead you to true
happiness but fulfillment and Bob Ross
my friend right here this is what real
happiness really means so to get here
there are three main ways the first is
going to be a healthy body the second is
going to be a healthy status and lastly
it’s going to be a healthy mind so let’s
start the healthy body now a healthy
body means that you take care of your
own body and preserve your own temple
that you made for yourself
because you are not going to be happy if
you’re dying of some kind of chronic
pain illness I promise you about that so
to take to take research from this I use
the blue zone now the blue zone is a
term coined by Dan Buettner and
partnership with National Geographic and
it was kind of groundbreaking research
the time of 2007 and basically their
geographic locations in the world where
people grow to be extremely extremely
healthy now just how healthy let me show
you the average lifespan for a US
citizen for all of you guys it’s pretty
much seventy eight point four years
after that I got to going to the grave
you know Cemetery something like that
people in the Blue Zone live up to over
a hundred years you are adding 20 years
to your lifespan and none of you guys
are even 20 yet think about that I know
right it’s crazy
so how do you achieve a hundred plus
years of beautiful age the question or
the answer is brains more vegetables of
meat in the diet and a lot of olive oil
apparently instead of using vegetable
oil or saturated fats and now for
Italians and Italians only a glass of
wine every single day benefit before you
do that science is still trying to prove
it don’t try it at home yet I wasn’t
paid by the addition to tell you guys go
drinking that’s not my job and in
addition to that is a little bit of
light exercise now the people we’re live
in the Blue Zone they’re live in places
where grocery stores and the place that
need to go is within walking distance so
they get their exercise by doing their
daily tasks but for us it’s different
cuz we have to drive we drive to go to
school and we rarely bike like other
countries and that’s part of the reason
why America is kind of known for being
obese you know we’re not looking for a
flat stomach but we are looking for a
little bit of light exercise in our
daily lives
and now to go on is a healthy status now
as for me as an Asian child this is
probably the horror of every parent but
I wanted to be an artist and my parents
my parents
I’m a dentist
no no no no
so this brings up a question this means
of a question my parents are right if I
become an artist there’s a probably 99%
chance I will become a hobo and homeless
but at the same time if I become an
artist
I’m really trying to travel to where I
want to be to who I want to be so the
question is how much does money matter
and it turns out that researchers have
an answer the magic number is $75,000 as
stated by Harvard in 2010 sorry
Princeton
I apologize Princeton in 2010 $75,000
this means that if your annual income
exceeds $75,000 you should be at your
maximum happiness threshold however this
number changes a little bit with the
Council for Community and Economic which
is 2016 for California the number for
California is $90,000 this means that if
your household annual income exceeds
$90,000 you should be at that maximum of
happiness threshold this means that if
you earn over this amount Bill Gates
should not be any happier than you and
you should not be any happier than Bill
Gates and any accumulation of money
beyond this point really doesn’t bring
you extra happiness so the answer is yes
money matters but only to a degree in a
certain point you don’t want to be a
hobo being a hobo isn’t gonna bring you
happiness unfortunately I know something
guys want to be like that but but money
it really does matter so it’s important
to find a type of path that will be able
to bring you the balance of both sides
now lastly is going to be a healthy mind
in the Maslow’s hierarchy you have
physiological needs at the very bottom
but as we go back to the blue zone it
turns out that at the bottom belonging
with family comes first as what they
consider to be the most important and
Harvard actually did the longest ever
human study spanning over 75 years with
over four directors 700 for people with
now only 6000 left and now recently it’s
2,000 children and
this research actually discovered they
were trying to measure just like the
patterns and a human life but what they
actually discovered that people who had
the maximum amount were not Maxim high
highest amount of happiness there were
the happiest in a relationship there are
happiest with mom their friends peers
and family so it turns out that a good
relationship actually protects you both
mentally and physically and it doesn’t
have to be a marital relationship either
it can be with someone with a best
friend with your parents or the really
really beloved teacher or some kind of
mentor but the thing is is that you have
to have someone that’s there for you and
cares for you that gives you the amount
of I know it’s gonna sound cheesy but it
has to be love
it seems that love really is a true
answer to happiness and Disney was right
all along it turns out that people who
are 80 years old those who say that have
a very very high satisfaction in their
relationship their mental ability
doesn’t decrease since from the time
that they are almost 40 which is
absolutely amazing they have decreased
risk of Alzheimer’s mental retardation
and all kinds of things it turns out to
really protect you mentally and
physically however this isn’t the fact
for all of America the Harris Poll in
Time magazine collaborated to make a
happiness census every year for America
and in 2016 the number was thirty one
out of a hundred which is incredibly low
and the University of Chicago in 2008
also says that one in five Americans
feel that they are extremely lonely and
the Brigham Young University in 2015
decided this is actually something
that’s really really harmful to our
health you have a higher risk of
diabetes heart problems all kinds of
things and I know that we’re young right
now and these things don’t seem like a
problem to us but that doesn’t mean
they’re not gonna become a problem in
the future
however there is a bright side it turns
out that the human body is incredible
and it’s very very resilient it takes
only three months for the average human
after a major tragedy to get back to
their baseline happiness which if you
think about it it’s truly incredible
humans are really hardwired to find a
balance in life and we’re really
hardwired to find our own place of
happiness so in terms of how to achieve
happiness we need one a healthy body –
we need a healthy status and lastly we
need a healthy mind as for me to apply
this to my own life a healthy body needs
exercising every single day no matter
what I decided that in my senior year I
was going to take something very very
challenging to me that I thought I could
never conquer in my life its weight
training I
I can barely bench thirty five pounds
but I’m working on it which is why it
matters now next is going thank you
thank you thank you
all you guys know now
so again will be a healthy status so
that means that I have to work hard no
matter what even if I really perhaps
don’t really want to be in school I
still have to work hard try to get a
good education make it to let’s say a
sustainable college and try and find a
good life for myself and try not to
think about really becoming a hobo you
know but lastly is a healthy mind which
is a relationship that means me building
my relation with my mom and I saw
incredible results every single night
before I would go to bed – right now
make us a huge habit of mine but just
say something very simple to my mom I
love you mom you did a really good job
today mommy worked really hard
mom just know that you’re the best mom
in the world and I saw huge improvements
over the past year my mom just told me
just almost a few days ago I didn’t even
practice this for the speech but she
told me a few days ago that she has
never been happier
in her entire life and that meant
absolutely the world to me and just
around a month ago she actually said to
me that I read I know I said I want you
to be a dentist or a lawyer but there
was a finally time that if you really
want to become an artist I think should
go for it and for me this was absolutely
groundbreaking to hear my most Asian
tiger mom say that to me
but I know that it couldn’t have
happened if I didn’t try to reach for
true happiness and to try to reach for
equality in our relationships so please
I want you to take this message from me
and try to find in yourselves maximum
happiness thank you guys
[Applause]
okay so first of all you guys have been
here for a really really long time you
guys saw some pretty amazing stuff you
guys want to see my best friend April
that was amazing you guys go to see
Nicole like I was blown away by that you
guys saw these two amazing speeches and
I’m just like I’m here to teach you guys
how to achieve happiness like Nicole
taught you guys had to become like the
next president United States I’ll tell
you guys how to do this so well I got to
do without it what I have right so this
is maximum happiness and it’s how to
achieve the maximum happiness and your
life you’re right there you’re the
supreme person right there maximum
happiness in your life right there all
right
so can asses this is oh yes okay so it’s
actually a science it’s known as
positive psychology and this science has
simply grown recently and it’s
completely exploded you see there’s a
whole bunch of books on it now a lot of
books on it now but the thing is if I
came up here and just say hey guys if
you want to be happy just read these
like 15 books none of you guys are gonna
do it right exactly so that’s what my
job is for you guys here today it’s how
to achieve maximum happiness without
these books now for me and probably for
you guys as a student achieving maximum
happiness means getting some good grades
right good grades leads to you know a
good University all right guys I’m gonna
wait so you guys settle down real quick
and a good university it’s going to lead
to me being the most powerful person in
the world I’m gonna be rich I gonna meet
wealthy I’m gonna own six islands this
is exactly how I want to live my life
but the question is is this actually
going to make me happy yes it is it’s
gonna make me happy I want only six
islands it’s but actually I took a class
by a teacher named mr. Park the gun in
my sophomore year if you guys had in the
next year it’s really easy to remember
his name he octagon talked about the
best teacher will ever have but he kind
of made me question whether or not this
is actually worth anything so I decided
to kind of go on a quest a little bit to
find out what real happiness is because
owning six islands is awesome and all
but I want to see just how far six
islands will take me so this is me right
there that’s me
this is me and Chyna and then I decided
to move to America now for me it was a
really really easy move but for my mom
it actually wasn’t for my mom that meant
that she had to leave all of her
security
she left her friends she left any sort
of just like belonging back in China and
it’s because of this that my mom
actually fell into almost 12 years now
of extreme depression this is to the
point where she had incredible medical
illnesses that just came out of nowhere
that we were just so bewildered by and
so when I was young I really wanted to
treat my mom but I was not a doctor by
any means and so I decided to ask my
best friend like the one closest to my
heart ask Google
thank you
alright alright so I asked Google how do
you be happy and Google responded to me
she said this is how to be happy always
with pictures happiness isn’t planning
on who you are what you have it depends
on what you think reduce complications
life is simple
and lastly understand balance okay that
did not make me happy at all
so I really wanted to find out what
scientifically it makes us happy because
simply googling this kind of question
doesn’t really bring us an accurate
answer and it does certainly doesn’t
make me feel happy I would rather to own
6 eyelids so I decided to go on a quest
for happiness and my sophomore and
junior year I just went on a year of
research and I discovered two categories
of happiness now the first category is
elation elation comes it’s short-term
and it’s very sudden such as winning a
jackpot or doing drugs now the second is
fulfillment and this is where true
and this is where true happiness as
opposed to come from these are the
people that you’re truly considered to
be happy who can somehow get through the
most toughest of things now of course
the school tells me that I’m not allowed
to tell you to do drugs so I’m gonna
tell you exactly why I doing drugs
annulation is bad because it’s something
that’s very very short-term it doesn’t
fill the hole within you doing drugs and
just becoming happy for that short term
period is not going to lead you to true
happiness but fulfillment and Bob Ross
my friend right here this is what real
happiness really means so to get here
there are three main ways the first is
going to be a healthy body the second is
going to be a healthy status and lastly
it’s going to be a healthy mind so let’s
start the healthy body now a healthy
body means that you take care of your
own body and preserve your own temple
that you made for yourself
because you are not going to be happy if
you’re dying of some kind of chronic
pain illness I promise you about that so
to take to take research from this I use
the blue zone now the blue zone is a
term coined by Dan Buettner and
partnership with National Geographic and
it was kind of groundbreaking research
the time of 2007 and basically their
geographic locations in the world where
people grow to be extremely extremely
healthy now just how healthy let me show
you the average lifespan for a US
citizen for all of you guys it’s pretty
much seventy eight point four years
after that I got to going to the grave
you know Cemetery something like that
people in the Blue Zone live up to over
a hundred years you are adding 20 years
to your lifespan and none of you guys
are even 20 yet think about that I know
right it’s crazy
so how do you achieve a hundred plus
years of beautiful age the question or
the answer is brains more vegetables of
meat in the diet and a lot of olive oil
apparently instead of using vegetable
oil or saturated fats and now for
Italians and Italians only a glass of
wine every single day benefit before you
do that science is still trying to prove
it don’t try it at home yet I wasn’t
paid by the addition to tell you guys go
drinking that’s not my job and in
addition to that is a little bit of
light exercise now the people we’re live
in the Blue Zone they’re live in places
where grocery stores and the place that
need to go is within walking distance so
they get their exercise by doing their
daily tasks but for us it’s different
cuz we have to drive we drive to go to
school and we rarely bike like other
countries and that’s part of the reason
why America is kind of known for being
obese you know we’re not looking for a
flat stomach but we are looking for a
little bit of light exercise in our
daily lives
and now to go on is a healthy status now
as for me as an Asian child this is
probably the horror of every parent but
I wanted to be an artist and my parents
my parents
I’m a dentist
no no no no
so this brings up a question this means
of a question my parents are right if I
become an artist there’s a probably 99%
chance I will become a hobo and homeless
but at the same time if I become an
artist
I’m really trying to travel to where I
want to be to who I want to be so the
question is how much does money matter
and it turns out that researchers have
an answer the magic number is $75,000 as
stated by Harvard in 2010 sorry
Princeton
I apologize Princeton in 2010 $75,000
this means that if your annual income
exceeds $75,000 you should be at your
maximum happiness threshold however this
number changes a little bit with the
Council for Community and Economic which
is 2016 for California the number for
California is $90,000 this means that if
your household annual income exceeds
$90,000 you should be at that maximum of
happiness threshold this means that if
you earn over this amount Bill Gates
should not be any happier than you and
you should not be any happier than Bill
Gates and any accumulation of money
beyond this point really doesn’t bring
you extra happiness so the answer is yes
money matters but only to a degree in a
certain point you don’t want to be a
hobo being a hobo isn’t gonna bring you
happiness unfortunately I know something
guys want to be like that but but money
it really does matter so it’s important
to find a type of path that will be able
to bring you the balance of both sides
now lastly is going to be a healthy mind
in the Maslow’s hierarchy you have
physiological needs at the very bottom
but as we go back to the blue zone it
turns out that at the bottom belonging
with family comes first as what they
consider to be the most important and
Harvard actually did the longest ever
human study spanning over 75 years with
over four directors 700 for people with
now only 6000 left and now recently it’s
2,000 children and
this research actually discovered they
were trying to measure just like the
patterns and a human life but what they
actually discovered that people who had
the maximum amount were not Maxim high
highest amount of happiness there were
the happiest in a relationship there are
happiest with mom their friends peers
and family so it turns out that a good
relationship actually protects you both
mentally and physically and it doesn’t
have to be a marital relationship either
it can be with someone with a best
friend with your parents or the really
really beloved teacher or some kind of
mentor but the thing is is that you have
to have someone that’s there for you and
cares for you that gives you the amount
of I know it’s gonna sound cheesy but it
has to be love
it seems that love really is a true
answer to happiness and Disney was right
all along it turns out that people who
are 80 years old those who say that have
a very very high satisfaction in their
relationship their mental ability
doesn’t decrease since from the time
that they are almost 40 which is
absolutely amazing they have decreased
risk of Alzheimer’s mental retardation
and all kinds of things it turns out to
really protect you mentally and
physically however this isn’t the fact
for all of America the Harris Poll in
Time magazine collaborated to make a
happiness census every year for America
and in 2016 the number was thirty one
out of a hundred which is incredibly low
and the University of Chicago in 2008
also says that one in five Americans
feel that they are extremely lonely and
the Brigham Young University in 2015
decided this is actually something
that’s really really harmful to our
health you have a higher risk of
diabetes heart problems all kinds of
things and I know that we’re young right
now and these things don’t seem like a
problem to us but that doesn’t mean
they’re not gonna become a problem in
the future
however there is a bright side it turns
out that the human body is incredible
and it’s very very resilient it takes
only three months for the average human
after a major tragedy to get back to
their baseline happiness which if you
think about it it’s truly incredible
humans are really hardwired to find a
balance in life and we’re really
hardwired to find our own place of
happiness so in terms of how to achieve
happiness we need one a healthy body –
we need a healthy status and lastly we
need a healthy mind as for me to apply
this to my own life a healthy body needs
exercising every single day no matter
what I decided that in my senior year I
was going to take something very very
challenging to me that I thought I could
never conquer in my life its weight
training I
I can barely bench thirty five pounds
but I’m working on it which is why it
matters now next is going thank you
thank you thank you
all you guys know now
so again will be a healthy status so
that means that I have to work hard no
matter what even if I really perhaps
don’t really want to be in school I
still have to work hard try to get a
good education make it to let’s say a
sustainable college and try and find a
good life for myself and try not to
think about really becoming a hobo you
know but lastly is a healthy mind which
is a relationship that means me building
my relation with my mom and I saw
incredible results every single night
before I would go to bed – right now
make us a huge habit of mine but just
say something very simple to my mom I
love you mom you did a really good job
today mommy worked really hard
mom just know that you’re the best mom
in the world and I saw huge improvements
over the past year my mom just told me
just almost a few days ago I didn’t even
practice this for the speech but she
told me a few days ago that she has
never been happier
in her entire life and that meant
absolutely the world to me and just
around a month ago she actually said to
me that I read I know I said I want you
to be a dentist or a lawyer but there
was a finally time that if you really
want to become an artist I think should
go for it and for me this was absolutely
groundbreaking to hear my most Asian
tiger mom say that to me
but I know that it couldn’t have
happened if I didn’t try to reach for
true happiness and to try to reach for
equality in our relationships so please
I want you to take this message from me
and try to find in yourselves maximum
happiness thank you guys
[Applause]
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