Cease . Guest ing well, thanks for asking. By the word hacking, i mean a playful rethinking of a subject as compare today a nefarious computer hacker, and that has to do with the book that i wrote. The logic is we can rethink happiness so its not just about mood, and we can also measure happiness by using emerging technology, and thats also where the app in paren the cease comes into play. How you can be accountable, how you can be a provider and how you can be proactive. So it has to do with a subject matter i cover in the book. Host whats the role of technology in creating happiness . Guest well, i think its, the first thing is that technology is so much a part of our lives now in one sense, it has to a certain extent become us. Outside the idea of sort of cyborg questions, we have a fake limb thats wifi enabled which is pretty possible, the logic is that our iphones and smartphones are such a huge part of our lives, to ignore technology or say im just going to ignore it, i think for
Happyneiness host what is the role of technology in creating happiness . Guest well, i think the first thing is that technology is so much a part of our lives in one sense it has, to a certain extent, become us. Outside of the idea of cyborg questions of could we have a make limb that is wifi enabled, which is possible, the logic is the smart phones are a huge part of our lives and to ignore technology, i think for most of us, that is hard at a do. I read a study, i think was commissioned by the people at huffing post, that said of the woman surveyed in the study, 3,000 people, half of them said they would rather skip sex for a month than go without their smart phone. So my logic is lets acknowledge all of tools being used by advertise to track our life and make sure we are safe and recognize and study the patterns of wellbeing and mood and optimize or increase our hap happiness and not just our mood but our longterm wellbeing. Host how tracked are we . Guest all of time. I think it is
Thank you very much for that question. I absolutely believe, we as an organization believe it is an important incentive. It puts a spotlight on research and children. It they risks it at a certain level because there is an incentive and that becomes a very important issue as Companies Look across their portfolios and decide where to make investments to battlers la health of the nation. That in my mind is a big deal. How it could be made better, right now is it is provisional or temporary trial. It could be a stronger statement if it was permanent. We the people want to invest and make incentives and opportunities for research with children. While i have the money there is one of the eighth thing i would like to comment, particularly impressed with the comment about the voice of the patient. And i think as do many of my colleagues within shire and across the industry, though rare disease world, is hugely informative. Often times patients and organizations who represent them know more ab
Before it was possible for americans to go to the main land to study, i studied classical chinese and so the great writers, philosophers and thinkers at the time and then i ended up writing my dissertation about mao tsetung, so very im much in the contemporary era. So ive kind of done a lot of things in taiwan to shanghai where i taught at east China Normal University and later in hong kong, where im going again as a full writer. Okay thats good. How long did it take you to get through grad school . Thats right, i did it its a lot to absorb but i was actually it was nixons visit in 1972 73 that opened up in a sense china to the u. S. They saw it as opening china outward to the broader world and it intrigued me and i said this is going to be big and we need more people to know whats going on between our two societies. Absolutely and as we are you were here in the first part of the class and of course where we are in beliefs and believers is were coming to the end of looking at what we c
The continued development of any economy and taiwans is no exception. On todays program was delighted and honored to have put ice in them going he who is currently the president of National Young university to share with as his piece on the state of High Education in taiwan will come to the program doesnt help thank you mama to be here and colleen am currently the prison of a nation we i mean is that this was a little whooping the president on National Young University Since two thousand and ten can you please start off the program give this a general assessment of the state of High Education in town went to take her. I think that though we are facing numerous talented student for hyde education to want to imprison come to mind probably too many peoples mind is that though we facing the prices of any of you and your warm breath does every year. Not too long was above twenty thousand pts for years been no drop to forty and fifty others. So even if you use. I think that what you receive