# Why doesn't success bring happiness?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxReno
- Speaker: Laura Gassner Otting
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_gassner_otting_why_doesn_t_success_bring_happiness)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Why doesn't success bring happiness?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/laura_gassner_otting_why_doesn_t_success_bring_happiness/62379b36e9ed), 13 min (TED's player)