Google Pioneer Chade-Meng Tan on Joy at Scale & Global Peace

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Chade-Meng Tan (1:12)

What thought preceded just before that thought on the creator condition will be in my lifetime? That thought was the sudden realization that I was happy. I mean, I was miserable, right? When I was young.

And then I learned meditation, and then I became happy. And then so I was taking a walk, and then suddenly I realized that in the past, my baseline happiness was misery. Nothing happens, I was miserable. And then in a few short years, my baseline happiness is jolliness. And it's like, if I, like this flawed, stupid, worthless human being, I can do this. Anybody can do this. I mean, I definitely think anybody can do this. And if everybody does this, this creates a condition for world peace.

Michael Gervais (2:05)

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