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“Life, however, sometimes needs to give you a nudge in order to alter your path. It uses a bit of hardship to lead you to something good. In”
― Solve For Happy: An original, insightful guide to finding joy
― Solve For Happy: An original, insightful guide to finding joy
“Biologically speaking, feeling good plays an important role as part of our survival machine. Our brains use it to drive survival behaviors that do not relate to immediate threats. To achieve that, our brains flood our bodies with serotonin, oxytocin, and other feel-good chemicals during acts they want to encourage us to do more often.”
― Solve For Happy: An original, insightful guide to finding joy
― Solve For Happy: An original, insightful guide to finding joy
“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for?”
― How the Mind Works
― How the Mind Works
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