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Why doesn't success bring happiness?

Laura Gassner Otting · TED

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About

Success is energizing. But it's also anxiety-provoking and exhausting. Each time we achieve it, we often tend to immediately seek out the next step upward. Drawing on a two-decade career in executive search, interviewing thousands of the most successful people in the world, Laura Gassner Otting explains why success doesn't bring happiness, and how we can instead harness the volatile mix of emotions it does present.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxReno
Speaker
Laura Gassner Otting
Year
2022
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Business and management
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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