andrey shapenko, professor at the moscow okolkov school of management, elena guseva, family provocativend i’m its host, grigory tarasevich, editor-in-chief of the magazine, which is also called schrödinger's cat. and we are talking about important things from a scientific point of view. today's topic is very, very important. so modestly, the meaning of life, and we invited dmitry leontyev, professor, doctor of psychological sciences, head of the international laboratory of positive psychology of personality and motivation at the higher school of economics, dmitry has many more credentials, but the main thing is that he is a psychologist who deals with issues of meaning, issues human existence. hello, let's try to talk. about the meaning life, i’m a little worried, because the topic is somehow downright frightening, what is the meaning of life? well, you know, there is such a simple joke: father, tell me, i live correctly, correctly, my son, only in vain, that is , the question of meaning is the question of whether we live in vain or not in vain, that’s what it’s all for, there is simply

today in the studio are andrey shapenko, professor at the moscow skolkova school of management, and elenappiness, the formula for happiness. yes, i will say it differently, happiness is a state of maximum satisfaction with one’s being. it's not an emotion, it's what we look at emotions through. because there are different events, if we are happy, they will bring us positive emotions, if we are not happy, we will start to cry, that is, this way of assessing or looking at the world, as the ancient sages said, it is not the things that upset us, but the way we we look at them, the ability to get high, to enjoy, but i see here, well, not exactly a contradiction, but in any case, quite different perspectives, the ability to get high, the ability to enjoy in any situation, even the most difficult, some positive ones... that is, after all, an assessment, from your point of view it is rather a kind of lens , through which we look at this, how we feel, how we feel. is happiness in the head in the psychology of our relationship with the world or in physiology? in psychology and , accordingly, physi