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282: The Science of Happiness and How to Extract More Joy Out of Every Day | Arthur Brooks, PhD
The Genius Life
How to be Happy without Responding to Trolls
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- Happiness and unhappiness reside largely in different different hemispheres of the brain.
- People 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.
- If 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.
- There'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.
- I'm unusually high in both, which is called the mad scientist profile.
- Happiness 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.
- Hard exercise doesn't make you happier, it makes you less unhappy.
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