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“Ideas Worth Spreading” – Watch Daniel Kahneman’s TED Talk

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What’s the point of working with a coach?  As a client, my hoped-for outcome is a happier, more satisfying life. As a coach, I support my clients in creating lives that are joyful and fulfilling.

If you, too, think “happiness” is a good outcome for yourself and your clients, this is a must-see video.

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, chosen to deliver the first TED Talk at this year’s TED Conference in Long Beach, gives us important tips for creating pleasurable experiences and minimizing unpleasant ones.  Would you believe that even a colonoscopy can be made less yucky? 

If you’re new to the TED Talks,  let this be the first of many exciting discoveries, all free, and most available in many languages.  TED is devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and there’s no better idea than happiness.  Enjoy!

Click here to view the Daniel Kahneman video.

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Ruth Ann is a Founder of the Coaching Commons, an IAC Certified Coach, and president of the Harnisch Foundation. Ruth Ann is one of the world's leading philanthropists in funding the field of coaching, and if you sell a coaching product, she has probably bought one. She is also a recovering journalist who occasionally bangs out a few passionate paragraphs for the Coaching Commons and for RuthAnnHarnisch.com.

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Billy C H Teoh on March 2, 2010

Great stuff about the ‘experiencing-self’ versus the ‘remembering-self’.

Interestingly, are there research findings on the influences of ethnicity, religion, culture, values, beliefs and the like, over the ‘experiencing-self’ and the ‘remembering-self’? In other words, do these ‘influences’ (do/do not) affect or impact our ‘experiencing-self’ and ‘remembering-self’ during the course of our life experiences?

If ‘experiencing-self’ is significantly less or have little or no influence over our happiness level/index; to what extent can we as coaches enhance or elicit or induce accession of our client/coachee ‘remembering-self’?

Billy C H Teoh
Malaysia.

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