Dr. Shige Oishi

There's nothing wrong with the William James equation. I mean, it's really brilliant. But two ways to maximize the self esteem. One is maximize your success. Then your self esteem is higher. But the other approach is reduce your desires. If you want a lot, then the success has to be enormous in order to get equation like high outcome.

There's nothing wrong with the William James equation. I mean, it's really brilliant. But two ways to maximize the self esteem. One is maximize your success. Then your self esteem is higher. But the other approach is reduce your desires. If you want a lot, then the success has to be enormous in order to get equation like high outcome.

There's nothing wrong with the William James equation. I mean, it's really brilliant. But two ways to maximize the self esteem. One is maximize your success. Then your self esteem is higher. But the other approach is reduce your desires. If you want a lot, then the success has to be enormous in order to get equation like high outcome.

But by reducing ambitions, even your success is a little, if the desire is small, then you could feel good about yourself.

But by reducing ambitions, even your success is a little, if the desire is small, then you could feel good about yourself.

But by reducing ambitions, even your success is a little, if the desire is small, then you could feel good about yourself.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Frankly, when I started my research back in 1995, I really didn't think about my own life at all. It is only after 20, maybe 25 years of research that picture we get from the happiness research looked like my father's life rather than my own life. And that's when I had some midlife crisis or as a second thought about what happiness research really means and what we found.

Frankly, when I started my research back in 1995, I really didn't think about my own life at all. It is only after 20, maybe 25 years of research that picture we get from the happiness research looked like my father's life rather than my own life. And that's when I had some midlife crisis or as a second thought about what happiness research really means and what we found.

Frankly, when I started my research back in 1995, I really didn't think about my own life at all. It is only after 20, maybe 25 years of research that picture we get from the happiness research looked like my father's life rather than my own life. And that's when I had some midlife crisis or as a second thought about what happiness research really means and what we found.

So it's really just recently just occurred to me that my father led a very cozy, pleasant, happy life. And I study happiness and try to be happy myself, but maybe many things I did were counterproductive to happiness and maybe my dad was doing better in that dimension.

So it's really just recently just occurred to me that my father led a very cozy, pleasant, happy life. And I study happiness and try to be happy myself, but maybe many things I did were counterproductive to happiness and maybe my dad was doing better in that dimension.

So it's really just recently just occurred to me that my father led a very cozy, pleasant, happy life. And I study happiness and try to be happy myself, but maybe many things I did were counterproductive to happiness and maybe my dad was doing better in that dimension.

I think that's a really interesting point that in many ways, our life is way more globalized compared to 30, 40, 50 years ago. We're so connected to outside world. But if you look carefully about algorithms and social media, and we were putting into a small sort of niches where our background preferences coded in their own language, and

I think that's a really interesting point that in many ways, our life is way more globalized compared to 30, 40, 50 years ago. We're so connected to outside world. But if you look carefully about algorithms and social media, and we were putting into a small sort of niches where our background preferences coded in their own language, and

I think that's a really interesting point that in many ways, our life is way more globalized compared to 30, 40, 50 years ago. We're so connected to outside world. But if you look carefully about algorithms and social media, and we were putting into a small sort of niches where our background preferences coded in their own language, and

We have this illusion of we live in a global village, but in reality, we really don't live in a global village. We live with somebody who has similar view, similar political view, similar maybe music taste and so forth. So I think the media context is a very interesting one. It is magnified. I mean, physically speaking, right? My dad lives in a village of maybe 150 people, right?

We have this illusion of we live in a global village, but in reality, we really don't live in a global village. We live with somebody who has similar view, similar political view, similar maybe music taste and so forth. So I think the media context is a very interesting one. It is magnified. I mean, physically speaking, right? My dad lives in a village of maybe 150 people, right?