Our pursuit for happiness and success

The essence of our entire existence is to be happy. Whether it’s a successful career, finding love, feeling our best selves - the core goal is being happy. But we also hear how money can’t buy us happiness…Then what is the correlation between success and happiness? The path of success leading to happiness is baked into us from an early age. Yet neuroscience suggests we may have the sequence the wrong way round. Let’s find out how the journey within impacts our journey without.

Biography:

Devahuti Shaw (IN) is an attorney and has currently transitioned careers to pursue inter-disciplinary studies. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Legal Anthropology at Universität Bern after having completed her M.A. in South Asian Studies at Universität Heidelberg, Germany; encompassing Vaishnavism, personhood, anthropology, transculturality, history and law.