Brutmicae here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Mamminess Podcast.

So our brain has a built-in negativity bias which causes us to focus on negative things and

sort of ignore the positive.

This has an evolutionary purpose because it allowed our caveman and sisters to be on the

lookout for things that could kill them.

But in today's modern world when there aren't any saber-tooth tigers roaming the streets,

that negativity bias causes us to focus on things that aren't really problems, like the

guy who cut you off in the while you're driving, you know, annoying emails, whatever it could

be, and that causes us to be agitated, depressed, irritated, lonely, angry, whatever.

And according to our guest, with just a few seconds every day, we can actually train our brain

and hardwire it to overcome that negativity bias when it's not useful.

His name is Dr. Rick Hansen.

He's the author of the book, Hardwiring Happiness, the new brain science of contentment,

calm, and confidence.

And today we're going to talk about how to hardwire your brain for happiness so you can be more

resilient.

Let's do this.

Dr. Rick Hansen, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Brett.

Okay, so your book is a hardwiring happiness.

You've written other books, but this one is the most recent.

And I think a first good question to ask before we talk about how you hardwire happiness

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