"In our search for happiness we make so much noise...that actually we miss the very thing that we were looking for." — Andy Puddicombe Christoph Kadur/Getty Images/iStockphoto hide caption
"In our search for happiness we make so much noise...that actually we miss the very thing that we were looking for." — Andy Puddicombe
Christoph Kadur/Getty Images/iStockphotoMany of us are lured by the promise of self-improvement, but find it hard to follow through. In our 100th episode, TED speakers reveal ways to discover our better selves.
Rejection was my curse, was my boogeyman. It has bothered me my whole life because I was running away from it. Then I started embracing it. I turned that into the biggest gift in my life. - Jia Jiang Alex McKissack/Alex McKissack/TED hide caption
I sometimes think that in our search for happiness we make so much noise...that actually we miss the very thing that we were looking for and we realize that, 'oh, actually it was here all along.' - Andy Puddicombe. Dafydd Jones/Dafydd Jones/TED hide caption
Emily Balcetis speaks at TEDxNewYork. Dian Lofton hide caption
Matt Cutts on the TED stage. James Duncan Davidson/James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
If you ask me about the most important times in my life ... it's rarely the happy times. It's the times when you're struggling for some ideal. - David Brooks Ryan Lash/Ryan Lash/TED hide caption
