# How to be Happy

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr Raj Persaud
- Year: 2005
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/how-be-happy-0)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Raj Persaud suggests that sustained happiness at the personal level is not going to be achieved by many solutions proposed by social scientists, the media and politicians, instead happiness has more to do with personal adjustment and attitude - in other words we have to take personal responsibility for our own well-being. He warns that attempts to manufacture happiness through various state and personal mechanisms in the past have been doomed to failure, because of a fundamental failure to appreciate the elusive and personal nature of sustained long term well-being.

## Lectures

1. [How to be Happy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/how-be-happy-0/0062f75cd659) (YouTube)