Designing Happiness: Evolutionary Basics
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We chase so many things in life, believing that achieving them will make us better off and happier. But what if happiness were much simplier than that? What if we could solve for happiness by looking at it through an evolutionary lens, understanding why and how it works in these terms, and then address the associated evolutionary basic needs?
For the past 16 years J. Paul Neeley has been exploring the design of our lives for happiness. In this session he'll share some of his key learnings for happiness around Evolutionary Basics.
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J. Paul Neeley is a designer and research based in London with expertise in Speculative Design and Service Design. He has spent the last 16 years working on the design of life for happiness. He is the founder of Masamichi Souzou along with Elliott Wortham.
J. Paul is also building a software system called Omniana to help design and organize our lives for happiness. Omniana is a new kind of Life OS, helping you optimize your happiness.
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Masamichi Souzou (正道想像), meaning "Correct Path, Imagined/Created" in Japanese, is an organization that is working to build a world that is optimized for happiness, not just for profit or growth.
This is part of a series of talks where we explore various aspects of the design of our lives, and how various adjustments can be made to help optimize for happiness.
Talk + Discussion + New friends