An article from 2016 that I saved. It resonated and I wanted to share… What do you really need ? How will you contribute? Choose happiness…it’s an internal choice…a way of being _______________________________________________________________________ What if we told you there was a man who had unlocked the secret to human joy? That despite all the pain and suffering and bad news out there, a monk on a mountaintop in Nepal has discovered a kind of template for How to Be Happy. In fact, so wise and ebullient is Matthieu Ricard that he’s been celebrated as “The Happiest Man in the World.” (Please don’t call him that.) We needed to meet this guy! So we sent Michael Paterniti to the hinterlands to learn how we all might make our lives a bit happier BY MICHAEL PATERNITI GQ, October 13, 2016