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Finding Happiness With A Tool Called LifeMapper - Quantified Self Tokyo - Oct 2012

Finding Happiness With A Tool Called LifeMapper - Quantified Self Tokyo - Oct 2012

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/

Jonathan Waller

October 20, 2012
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  1. Self introduction • Jonathan Waller • In Japan for five

    years. • Developer, interested in happiness and personality
  2. - 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). Martin Seligman People seem happiest when they have:
  3. “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