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How To Be Happy

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  How to be Happy – ICA Panel Discussion 27 th January 2011 With Oliver Burkeman, Philipa Perry, Ros Taylor & Mark Fisher From a personal point of view this talk didn’t get off to a particularly auspicious start. My letter of complaint were I unhappy yet self-validating enough to write such a thing would begin, “ dear ICA I paid £12 pounds for a discussion on happiness and I am unhappy that I couldn’t hear twenty five percent of it due to a terribly inadequate sound system, unworthy even off the most under-funded village hall let alone art’s centre. The fact that the twenty five percent I missed was predominantly the words of the host speaker, Mark Fisher, makes this all the more disheartening. Thanks to the seventy five percent of the lecture I did hear I know that this is not a useful line of thought to pursue so I will bid you anon…” Thankfully someone else in the audience had confidence in their ability to judge consensus audibility and piped up, otherwise I would have