Our happiest days are undoubtedly spent in the days of our childhood. But, everything falls apart and unhappiness settles in when we enter our teenage years. What are the causes of teenage anxiety and depression? What can we do about this? Find out as Raj imparts his wisdom and know-how on raising happy teenagers. If you're a parent, you might want to want to take some notes!

Thanking Driss Elmeloud (@iamdriss) for the opening gears animation reel.
Raj Raghunathan is Zale Centennial Professor of Business at the McCombs School at UT Austin. His work explores how people’s judgments and decisions impact their happiness and fulfillment.

Raj’s work has appeared in top journals and cited in mass media outlets, including The Atlantic, NY Times, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Inc, Fast Company, and LA Times. He writes about his views on happiness and leadership on his popular Psychology Today blog (with close to 2 million page views), Sapient Nature.

Raj's six-week long Coursera course on happiness, A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment, currently has 250,000 students from 196 countries and was voted the Top MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) of 2015, 2016 & 2017, and one of the Top 50 MOOCs of all time.

Raj’s book, If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?, was launched in 2016 and has been translated into 13 languages. He has delivered several keynote lectures and his TED talk, which aired on STAR TV India, was viewed by over 17 million people worldwide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx