{"id":54623,"date":"2018-08-19T01:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/19\/ode-to-joy-how-to-find-happiness-in-balloons-and-rainbows\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:05:03","slug":"ode-to-joy-how-to-find-happiness-in-balloons-and-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54623","title":{"rendered":"Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key to feeling cheerful lies not in our inner wellbeing but in the world around usYour work gives me a feeling of joy,\u201d one of the professors said. The others nodded. I should have been happy. Nine months before, I had left my career as a brand strategist to pursue a graduate degree in a field in which I had no experience: industrial design. Many times over the course of the year I had felt overwhelmed by the new skills I needed to learn, from drawing to colour-mixing to woodworking. But today I had passed the assessment, and I did feel relieved to know that my career shift hadn\u2019t been a giant mistake.And yet, as I looked at those nodding faces, my heart sank in my chest. I wanted to be a designer because I believed design could solve serious problems. I volunteered with a non-profit organisation designing low-cost reflective backpacks to prevent roadside injury among schoolchildren in Ghana. Late at night, I pored over books on renewable materials and environmentally friendly manufacturing strategies. I had hoped the professors would see in my work a commitment to using design to build a safer, fairer, more sustainable world. Instead, they saw joy. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/aug\/19\/ode-to-joy-how-to-find-happiness-in-balloons-and-rainbows\" target=\"_blank\">Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to feeling cheerful lies not in our inner wellbeing but in the world around usYour work gives me a feeling of joy,\u201d one of the professors said. The others nodded. I should have been happy. Nine months before, I had left my career as a brand strategist to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}