How can we be happy here on Earth?

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Avatar has through its representation of the paradisical world Pandora made many ponder over their own lives and the state of this world. For some this has led to a feeling of unhappiness since our lives in comparison with the Pandoran life seems rather bleak and meaningless. But still Pandora is an unobtainable fantasy. So what can we do to find happiness here on Earth instead?

Statistician Nic Marks has thought about what happiness is and how we can be happy: “he ask why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth).”

Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index | Video on TED.com


Also Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness have pondered over the matter of happiness: “he challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com


Also executive, educator, writer and life coach Srikumar S. Rao has thought of these things:
He “…says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness.”

Plug into your hard-wired happiness 1
Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness | Video on TED.com

Plug into your hard-wired happiness 2
YouTube - TED Talks- Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness- Part 2/2

What is your opinion? How can we be truly happy here on Earht?