Exploring happiness and it's true causes
Have you ever stopped to think about what makes YOU happy?
The annual Happiness and It's Causes conference explores the amazing science and psychology of human happiness with the world's leading thinkers.
We were there to ask the wealthy, the religious, and the famous guest speakers to share their experiences about the search for happiness.
612 ABC Brisbane Mornings pulled together a panel of people who from the outside appear to have gained the things other's strive for in the pursuit of happiness.
Madonna King poses the question 'are you happy?' to a religious leader, Queensland's sixth richest person, a nationally famous comedian and a man who gave away his life's possessions.
The Panel includes:
The head of the Anglican Church of Australia, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, Maha Sinnathamby, Queensland's sixth richest person with a net worth of $77 million, Meshel Laurie, a breakfast radio host, and comedian who tours the country, and Dennis Stevenson, a small business consultant who opened the doors to his Hamilton home and gave all of his 'stuff' away.
Learning happiness through loss
Dan Daly was a fireman of 24 years in New York when 9/11 happened.
The retired Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire department was at ground zero as the World Trade Centre buildings came down - as he watched many of his colleagues and friends suffer and die, while others helped strangers live.
Chief Daly now takes all he has learned from that experience to promote hope and tolerance.
He says sometimes tragic events cause people to come together.
"Take the cyclone and floods you've had here in Australia, you take 9/11 - a lot of these great tragedies cause us to come together and forget about our ego, we operate out of compassion, and when we operate out of compassion we take that road towards happiness."
He says going through an experience as traumatic as the terrorist attacks makes you stop and think about the tentativeness of life.
"We wanted to spend more time with the loved ones, and to tell them how much we loved them.
"In New York City you couldn't even hear a horn blowing I remember for months and months, people were opening the door for one another," he says.
"The legacy of 9/11 became 'look what we can do when we work together'."
Chief Daly says the volunteer effort that Brisbane saw after the floods needs to be harnessed on an ongoing basis.
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Have you ever stopped to think about what makes YOU happy? The annual Happiness and It's Causes conference explores the amazing science and psychology of human happiness with the world's leading thinkers. We were there to ask the wealthy, the religious
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