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How to be Happy without Responding to Trolls
Happiness and unhappiness reside largely in different different hemispheres of the brain./nPeople tend to think that unhappiness is the absence of happiness, but it's largely a set of emotions that are produced in neuroscientifically they're they're distinct largely./nIf you're trying to raise your happiness, that doesn't mean you're lowering your unhappiness. You can both be very high and or very low in either or both./nThere's a test called the panist test, the positive affect negative affect test, that you can find on my website or you can find it at a lot of different places around the internet./nI'm unusually high in both, which is called the mad scientist profile./nHappiness and unhappiness are distinct, and you need unhappiness to be happy. The reason for that is that you have to do unpleasant work to find satisfaction./nHard exercise doesn't make you happier, it makes you less unhappy.