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Happiness As Well-Being
- Happiness equals well-being made of fleeting pleasure and deeper meaning combined.
- Rick Hanson links both hedonia and eudaimonia to resilience, health, and longer life.
Two-Thirds You Can Change
- Genetics account for roughly one third of happiness influences and two thirds are changeable.
- Hanson emphasizes focusing on the two thirds we can shape through experience-dependent neuroplasticity.
Why Negativity Bias Exists
- The brain evolved a negativity bias to prioritize avoiding lethal threats over securing rewards.
- That bias scans, hyper-focuses, overreacts, and fast-tracks negative events into memory.