So yes . Um The term authentic happiness speaks to me uh deeply and truly . Mm Well , before we can dive into some of the sources of that authentic happiness and , and also , you know , get the community to share on that .
I studied Martin Seligmann's work before I matriculated into that Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program and then got to study underneath them . So I'm very familiar with authentic happiness is both a book and an experience . And I of course , very sort of familiar with the opposite of that , either inauthentic happiness or very authentic unhappiness .
And what I like about the title , we've got this , you know , for this event about happiness and fulfillment is it sort of hints at something a bit deeper and richer than that . And I was reminded of a phrase that Marty Seligman , uh the , the founder of Positive Psychology um used called Authentic Happiness . I don't know .
We're all each and each of us is in individual . And so we wanna make sure that we're authentic in our happiness journey . And so the Happiness Islands let us get in touch with what we genuinely , truly feel inspired by , uplifted by or energized by the science of positive psychology really tells us where if we were to gamble with respect to happiness , where do we want to gamble ?
You know , we want to meet people where they are , but it's more important now than ever that if we want to live in a happy , peaceful , loving world that we be happy , peaceful and loving ourselves , um , it's just critical , it was sad . And so I guess as we look around us , um , in modern society , there's a sort of slightly inauthentic , you know , materialistic version of happiness . It's about sort of having more , earning , more consuming , sort of joy and pleasure .
