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Hardwiring Happiness
Why does your brain insist on replaying that awkward moment from five years ago but forget the compliment you got yesterday? Meet your brain’s built-in grumpiness: the negativity bias. Rick Hanson’s “Hardwiring Happiness” is basically a user’s manual for hacking that glitch and rewiring your brain to savor the good stuff instead. Spoiler: it’s less about thinking happy thoughts and more about sticking with them long enough for your brain to catch on.
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