Is happiness something we find, or something we create? And if we can create it, what are happy people actually doing differently? Is happiness a lasting state we can build our lives around, or is a “happy life” really just a collection of good moments mixed with plenty of ordinary and difficult ones? Join Tasha, a super-friendly and talented cross-cultural freelancer and livestreamer, for an interactive exploration of one of humanity's oldest questions. We'll compare what makes each of us happy, examine what people who describe themselves as happy or unhappy tend to have, and lack, and ask whether we're sometimes chasing the wrong things entirely. Money? Purpose? Freedom? Love? Friendship? Achievement? Or simply learning to notice what's already there?

We'll also bring some fascinating research into the conversation. The World Happiness Report has repeatedly found that social connection is one of the strongest drivers of happiness across cultures, while recent global research involving more than 150,000 people found that something as ordinary as sharing meals with other people is strongly associated with greater life satisfaction and positive emotion, even after accounting for factors such as income and employment. But statistics can only take us so far. What does happiness actually mean to you? Can two people living almost identical lives experience them completely differently? And if so, how much of happiness comes from what happens to us, and how much comes from how we interpret, build and live our lives? Expect personal stories, different cultural perspectives, surprising disagreements and a conversation that might leave you looking at your own happiness a little differently.

幸福是我们找到的，还是我们创造的？如果我们可以创造它，那幸福的人到底做对了什么？幸福是一种我们可以围绕它来构建生活的持久状态，还是说“幸福的人生”其实只是一堆好时刻加上很多普通和艰难时刻的混合体？加入超级友善又有才华的跨文化自由职业者兼主播Tasha，一起互动式探讨人类最古老的问题之一。我们会比较各自感到幸福的东西，看看那些自称幸福和不幸福的人通常拥有什么、缺少什么，并问问我们是不是有时候完全追错了方向——钱？意义？自由？爱？友情？成就？还是仅仅学会留意那些已经存在的东西？

我们还会把一些有趣的研究带进对话。《世界幸福报告》反复指出，社交连接是跨文化中最强的幸福驱动因素之一，而最近一项涉及超过15万人的全球研究发现，像“和别人一起吃饭”这种日常行为，即使排除了收入和就业等因素，仍然与更高的生活满意度和积极情绪显著相关。但数据能带我们走多远呢？幸福对你来说到底意味着什么？两个生活几乎一模一样的人，体验会不会完全不同？如果会，那幸福有多少来自发生在我们身上的事，又有多少来自我们如何解读、构建和活出自己的人生？期待个人故事、不同文化视角、让人意外的分歧，以及一场可能会让你重新审视自己幸福感的对话。