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282: The Science of Happiness and How to Extract More Joy Out of Every Day | Arthur Brooks, PhD

The Genius Life

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The Neuroscience of Grief

Grieving is a funny thing. There's a part of our brain that's dedicated to actually knowing where somebody that we love is. And so there your brain is evolved to, to have a kind of a pinging, a homing function on it. It's supposed to be painful so that you can actually be reunited with your kin and not, you know, wander the frozen, frozen tundra and starve. But that's how that's the neuroscience of grief. It's actually painful and it's meant to be,. You need to do the work. A lot of people who are unhappy are not doing the work. The reason is because they're falling prey to a misconception about

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