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Are Your Expectations Too High?

The Science of Happiness

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I'm Too American for Costarica, and I Am Too Costrican for America

As an imigrant, as most imigrants probably feel this way, i am too american for costarica. So i'm somewhere in the middle. I think often when we talk happiness, and even more so in communities with a lot of privilege, they go towards this like it's me now. It's about showing up for your community and for each other. Having lower day to day expectations increases dopamin levels and in turn, supports our well being. E when you focus on the moments in time, when you focuson the now, that is happiness. Right as the moment in time is where we are now, what we're doing in this very moment, that's what

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