KEVIN SANDLER
Professional Speaker & Workshop Facilitator
Flagship Workshop
How to Build a Life You Love
A 60-minute interactive workshop for students and early-career professionals who want more clarity and excitement about what comes next.
In the Press
WHO IS KEVIN?
Kevin Sandler goes to slightly ridiculous lengths to answer one question:
What actually makes people love their lives?
Kevin started when he was 17, tracking his happiness for every 15 minute interval. Since then, he’s used his own life as an experiment — changing how and where he lives, traveling, tracking, testing, interviewing people, digging through research, and occasionally taking things way too far — all to understand what causes happiness.
Along the way, he discovered something that changed the question entirely:
You can have a lot of happy moments and still not love the life they add up to.
Today, Kevin is a speaker, writer, and obsessive experimenter exploring what specific conditions make people love their lives, and how ambitious young adults can deliberately build more of those conditions into their own life.
Core Insight
There’s a lot of advice for making yourself happier BUT there is surprisingly little for figuring out whether you actually like the life you’re making happier.
Sleep eight hours, exercise, practice gratitude, meditate, find purpose.
But they still can’t tell you whether you’d be happier living across the country, surrounded by completely different people, pursuing something you’re slightly terrified to try — or whether doing any of that would be the worst decision of your life.
That’s the part Kevin is interested in.
You have to figure out what specifically makes you love your life — the people, places, goals, freedom, challenge, novelty, connection, whatever it turns out to be — and then start testing what happens when you build more of it in.
There isn’t one universal recipe, the whole point is figuring out yours.
“[he has] a clear desire to get the most out of his young life: to see everything, to do everything”
Jessica Grose
New York Times
“He didn’t just want the ‘what’ or ‘when’ of it all. He wanted the ‘why.’”
Cecily Knobler
Upworthy
I tracked my happiness for every 15-minute interval since I was seventeen…
Here’s what I learned