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Your Anxiety Questions, Answered | Judson Brewer

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Happiness and Excitement

The excitement of eating some slice of pizza or getting somebody famous to retweet something that I want them to retweet is totally different from the feeling I get when I hug my son. The discursive mind, the chattering mind goes way down and I'm just filled with this inexplicable sense of everything's okay. Those are not the same species of animal. Clear branch point in the evolutionary chain. Yes. That's a revolutionary chain. Let me do one last voicemail here and it's from Sarah and it has to do with COVID.

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