2:47 How schools and students have coped with Covid-19 so far

Remarkable agility

�We find ourselves all in the storm, but in different boats.�

3:45 What does it look like for students to be the �best version of themselves�?

�Education is the only weapon they have to make sure demographics doesn�t equal destiny.�

Being the first person in John�s family to go to college

4:45 As adults, do we develop skills that simply can�t be learned as young people?

Seeds are planted from a young age

Learning is a long-term process

Life skills: listening, networking, communication, etc.

6:43 The meaning behind well-being

Reflecting on Martin Seligman, the founding father of positive psychology

Areas to fulfil: feeling good, purpose, relationships, and accomplishment

�The most important relationship you�ll ever have is with yourself�

8:35 Remaining curious throughout your life

We undervalue what we have

The need to be more �WEIRD�

Wisdom, Empathy, Initiative, Responsibility, Development

Einstein�s relentless curiosity

So much undiscovered talent at school

11:15 Why workplace well-being has become a priority in recent years

Concern that well-being could become a box-ticking exercise

How well-being sits within our new remote world

Questioning how wellbeing is being implemented

12:43 Well-being at a government level in Ireland

We all have a part to play

For the well-being of your children, invest in your well-being first

Be strategically selfish �

14:22 Sustainably improving well-being

Sense of agency

Learned helplessness

15:27 Mind your MEDS acronym

Mindfulness, Exercise, Diet, Sleep

John�s first exposure to mindfulness from his teacher

It�s about slowing down

20:07 Advice to being more present

Techniques learnt from James Kerr�s book �Legacy�

Don�t be hard on yourself when you�re not fully present

Micro-breaks to check in with yourself

22:17 1% improvements

Dave Brailsford teaching his team how to wash their hands

Marginal gains

24:07 The story of a woman brought up in Soviet occupied Hungary

Gratitude for the bright yellow and green bananas compared to the Soviet greyness

�Lower the amount of things you�re grateful for�

Take conscious breaths with gratitude

27:35 Breaking the �hedonic treadmill�

Happiness is an �insperience�; an inside job

Meerkat Moments

Happiness is where you place your attention

30:33 Can happiness be reliably measured?

Identify what success looks like

�I�ve done the best I can with the ability that I have�

Conversations to have with your children, beyond homework

The inner-critic amongst teenagers

33:05 Fulfilling the potential of young people

Parenting and teaching the generation on their screens

Generation of comparing themselves to others online

�Prepare the young people for the path�

Identify their strengths

�We have to put Maslow before Bloom�

37:23 Lessons from Brother Colm O�Connell

�Aren�t we all in transition?�

Take the pressure off to be free

The person happens to be an athlete, not an athlete happens to be a person

So many expectations weighed on young people

In conversation with Howard Behar, former CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company: �I am enough, I have enough, I do enough�

41:37 Ideas for current Transition year students

Keyword is �choice�

Young people aren�t reaching out to network enough

There is still time to grow and develop

Balcony (ownership) vs basement (�why me?�) thinking

�Small hinges open big doors�

Quiet leadership

46:27 Key fundamentals from John�s programme for wellness in schools

Tal Ben-Shahar�s positive psychology talk

Lessons from sports psychology

Enda McNulty�s story about Brian O�Driscoll

Nurture your relationship with the past, present and future

Attention given by young people

51:26 Is the modern education system facilitating well-being properly?

�We have a system perfectly designed for a world that no longer exists�

Capacity to co-create a new curriculum

53:22 Judging institutions on how well they promote happiness

The league table is very one-dimensional

The need for a conversation about what is intelligence

55:16 Healthy reference points that protect our well-being in a society geared towards individual gain and competition

Roy Keane: driven by fear

The skill of interpreting situations

�Stinking thinking�

Strive for good enough, not perfect

Talk to yourself like a friend

�It�s your attitude, not your aptitude, that will determine your altitude�

57:48 The impact of practising daily gratitude

Professor Robert Emmons on writing down three things you�re grateful for each day

What are the 50 things that make you happy?

Being granular: the small little things brought to the foreground

1:01:17 Teaching altruism at school

�A focus on we rather than me�

Sense of cohesion

�Givers gain�

Work for the Make a Wish Foundation

The �I Win Disease�: I Want It Now

1:04:23 Can empathy be taught amongst young adults?

Learning from Design Thinking: put yourself in the position of the user

The �disinhibition effect� of social media

3 components to emotional intelligence: awareness of your emotion, ability to regulate it, and the ability to empathise with the emotions of others

Empathy in the world of work

�What you say is not necessarily what the other person hears�

1:10:26 Is screen-time harmful or harmless for young people?

Attention for young people has been commercialised and commodified

Negative impact on ability to focus

Dr Nick Littlehales on sleep hygiene for Manchester United

No screens at bedtime

Concerns about the move to blended learning

Educate children on digital literacy

Before you post something: is it true, helpful, inspirational, necessary and is it kind?

Social media checks from potential employers

1:15:21 How we can practise John�s lessons day-to-day

�The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places� � Ernest Hemingway

The ABCDs of life: Always Be Continually Developing