How to Create the Happiest School in the World
Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google According to Chade-Meng Tan's TED Talk, "Everyday compassion at Google," the secret to happiness is compassion. To prove his point, the software engineer at Google introduced the audience to the happiest man on earth, a French Buddhist monk named Matthieu Ricard. Science has recently been able to quantify happiness through the measurement of a person's "relative activation of the left prefrontal cortex" in a fMRI . In Chade-Meng's words, Mattheiu's fMRI results were "off the charts!" So what is Mattheiu's secret to happiness? He practices the art of compassion. Chade-Men Tan believes that the company he works for, Google, uses this idea to create a happy working environment. He believes compassion in the workplace brings two benefits: Compassion transforms a good company into a great one. Compassion produces an inspired workforce. After listening to this TED Talk, it got me thinking. ...