8: Happiness
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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What Happens in the Brain and in the Body?
What happens inside yourself when you've had that buzz of doing the thing, having the experience or buying the thing that makes you happier? You mean physiologically? Yeah. I mean, is it just a kind of mental thing or is there kind of a physical change in you? Well, that's a profound question, isn't it? Because everything is related to what happens in the brain and in the body. But I would argue it's of no consequence at all. The neurons and your own activity underneath that, the brain, is of no interest to me at all. And because of that, I know nothing about it. People always go, oh, you must understand how the brain
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