Summary of Domani mi interrogano in felicità. | Federico Favot | TEDxPordenoneStudio

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In his talk, Federico Favot discusses the importance of storytelling and shares his personal experiences of how it has influenced his life. He talks about how, as a child, he was happy and carefree until 1984, when he was hospitalized due to an illness. At the hospital, he saw a panini stand and decided to buy a sandwich with ham and cheese. His mother was worried about the price, so he tried to convince her, but then saw her looking for her wallet and realized that she wasn't going to be able to afford it. He took two important decisions that day: the first was that he would eat a sandwich with cooked ham instead of raw, and the second was that he would never again ask his parents for anything they couldn't afford. Thirty years later, Favot was living in Rome and wrote television and movie scripts. He was happy and successful, but at the same time he wasn't happy. He didn't understand the nature of his misery, which started when he was a child, fascinated by stories. He decided to study stories and came up with many theories about storytelling, but if we boiled it all down, all stories follow a similar pattern: a protagonist lives in his everyday world and struggles, but eventually (usually

• 00:00:00 In his talk, Federico Favot discusses the importance of storytelling and shares his personal experiences of how it has influenced his life. He talks about how, as a child, he was happy and carefree until 1984, when he was hospitalized due to an illness. At the hospital, he saw a panini stand and decided to buy a sandwich with ham and cheese. His mother was worried about the price, so he tried to convince her, but then saw her looking for her wallet and realized that she wasn't going to be able to afford it. He took two important decisions that day: the first was that he would eat a sandwich with cooked ham instead of raw, and the second was that he would never again ask his parents for anything they couldn't afford. Thirty years later, Favot was living in Rome and wrote television and movie scripts. He was happy and successful, but at the same time he wasn't happy. He didn't understand the nature of his misery, which started when he was a child, fascinated by stories. He decided to study stories and came up with many theories about storytelling, but if we boiled it all down, all stories follow a similar pattern: a protagonist lives in his everyday world and struggles, but eventually (usually
• 00:05:00 Federico Favot, a TEDxPordenoneStudio, talks about his 20 years of life and how he has spent them in Friuli, reading hundreds of books during school years and then working on 7 days a week after graduating from high school. He describes an incident that caused him to question his happiness, and how he came to realize that money alone was not enough to live a fulfilling life. He then tells a story of traveling to Japan and studying literature, which led him to discover that the 10 commandments of Buddhism are a path to happiness. Favot shares the revelation that happiness is within us and that we must journey to find it, even if it means traveling to Japan.
• 00:10:00 In this TEDxPordenone talk, Favot argues that we need to wait for life to slap us in the face before we can start looking for happiness. He discusses how we can learn to be happy by studying subjects such as creativity, empathy, and patience. He believes that this type of education should be offered to all schools, not just a select few, in order to prepare students for a future where many of these skills will be obsolete.