After years of delivering caustic humour on stage, Vlismas could be making his exit from the stage and entering the business of making the workplace happier
It also could signal the beginning of a new career for him of delivering a scientific toolkit for human happiness in his new business venture, UpsideUndertaking: Vilsmas believes that comedy should always live next door to horror.
The new show will be very funny, he promises, but he would be doing his father a disservice if he didn’t have an honest, profound look at the sheer awfulness of death as well.The death of his father bestowed a clarity that triggered several changes. He ended a long-term relationship, stopped managing other comedians, and will never again apologise for being educated. He used to do that, he says, because comedy often dumps things down.
“I don’t think my legacy is going to be what I’ve done until the age of 45, I think my legacy at work is going to start now,” he says. “If I can build a scientific toolkit for human happiness I don’t think you could do anything better than that.” “Drugs like serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin all have different effects on the human condition that we call happiness, but basically happiness is a careful mix of a cocktail of these drugs in your system,” he explains.
“We draw an absolute correlation between measured workplace happiness and measured increase in profitability. Your share price can go up, fewer people are going to be absent from work. You’ll get less churn in your staff, more people applying to work at your business, and ultimately you’ll get a measurable increase in discretionary input,” he says.
“That’s why liberals are generally more clever than conservatives. But I’m probably not allowed to say that unless I reference a research paper!”
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