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Today we are going to talk about happiness.
We all like feeling happy, right? Well, if you don't like feeling happy, well then you either need some professional help, which I hope you get, or you're a freak!
But why do we always focus on the negative? Well, our brains evolved this way. It's an ancient survival mechanism, actually. We needed to learn quickly from bad experiences.
This obsession with the negative continues even until today, though we don't need this as a survival mechanism anymore.
In the book, "Hardwiring Happiness" by Rick Hanson, we learn why we are prone to, (have the tendency to, inclined to) worry about the past, focus on fears, and past hurts, and quite often, ignore positive experiences.
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#120 (PART 1) Cara Leopold - Talking Language & Personal Development
#119 Shhh - I'm Meditating "10% Happier" By Dan Harris
#118 How to Actually Live a Better Life - "A Guide to the Good Life"
#117 The Dumb Things We All Do - "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
#116 How to Be Yourself - "Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz
#115 Biggest Lessons of 2017 - Part 2
#114 Biggest Lessons of 2017 - Part 1
#113 Lindsay McMahon - Perfection is the Enemy
#112 How Stress Can Make you Stronger - "Antifragile"
#111 WHY! -"Start with Why" by Simon Sinek
#110 How to Deal with People - "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
#109 Finding the Courage to Connect With Others
#108 Resisting Personal Growth - My Story
#107 Loving Your Limits - A Ted Talk with Amy Purdy
#106 Goals are for Losers - "How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams
#105 Expect the Worst - "The Antidote" by Oliver Burkeman
#104 Now or Never: The 5 Second Rule
#102 Advanced grammar lesson: used to vs. to be used to
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