7-Habits of Happiness with Dr. Daniel Amen
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this week's mini episode, Dr. Amen goes over the 7-most important habits of happiness as he has seen and evaluated in his nearly 40 years of being a Psychiatrist.
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| 0:00.0 | Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. |
| 0:07.0 | Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. |
| 0:15.0 | So what are the things you can do today to increase your happiness? |
| 0:20.0 | And it's not wine and it your happiness. And it's not wine, and it's not CBD, and it's not marijuana, |
| 0:25.6 | it's not pornography, and it's not given into your angry urges, |
| 0:31.6 | and it's not a big bar of chocolate or big bowl of ice cream, |
| 0:38.6 | they'll make you feel good now, |
| 0:43.0 | that they'll make you feel unhappy later. |
| 0:47.3 | The secret is you have to change your brain to improve your moods. |
| 0:56.0 | You have to change your mind to change your mood. |
| 1:03.0 | You have to change your connections to change your mood. |
| 1:09.0 | It's not the other way around. You can't wait for your mood to improve to change your |
| 1:15.8 | behavior. So let me give you seven happiness habits. Number one, notice what you like more than what you |
| 1:26.9 | don't. This is so important. |
| 1:29.3 | And this takes discipline, which means basically you have to turn off the news. |
| 1:34.3 | Because let's be clear, the news is not about the news. |
| 1:41.3 | The news is about what drives eyeballs. It's about what drives clicks and what bleeds, |
| 1:49.9 | leads, what's scary gets the headlines. And so all the cool things, there have been millions |
| 1:57.8 | of pandemic. That's the right word. |
| 2:05.1 | There have been millions of people doing acts of kindness during this pandemic that never |
| 2:15.0 | lead. |
| 2:16.4 | Never lead the news. The news is not about the news. The news is about |
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