VIDEO: How to measure happiness. Learning from Bhutanese

"Not everything that can be counted, it is believed, and not everything that counts can be counted"
Albert Einstein

Can you identify what makes you happy? Amount of money? The presence of movable and immovable property? Healthy children? Interesting job? Such questions can be endless and the answers about the same, because each of us a measure of his happiness. And that elusive feeling of almost immeasurable. Even though it is a fundamental value. That feeling of happiness rather than economic indicators, which are based on people's decisions, from simple employees and owners of companies, ending with heads of state.

But there is one small country - Bhutan, which does not pay attention to the annual GDP. In Bhutan, the main gauge of well-being is the sense of happiness of the population.

Chip Conley, a businessman from the United States, had the good fortune to speak personally with the king of this country. And the king said to him, the main purpose of their country is not in the "production of happiness," and in creating the conditions for a happy life.

This begs the question, why are all the others are guided by the amount of material goods, completely without thinking about how happy their residents or workers? What is more important?

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Do you have your own measure of happiness and how matches what you are doing throughout the day on your work that you like?