Why Humans Aren't Designed to be Happy
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In America, happiness is big business. Industries put billions of dollars into marketing and selling the concept of happiness to the public. But what is happiness, really? And why is so much effort put into the "attaining" of it? In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, the Amens discuss how our evolutionary hardwiring predisposes us to anxiety, and why in some cases this is actually a good thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
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| 0:49.7 | Welcome back. We have been talking about mental health days, what you like to call brain health |
| 0:55.1 | days in schools and should we have them. And I think it's a really interesting idea. |
| 0:59.8 | I think it's every bit as important as physical health days because it is |
| 1:04.1 | physical health day. It's been really interesting. I love this week. And |
| 1:08.6 | this episode we're going to talk about why humans aren't actually designed to be happy. |
| 1:15.4 | So really interesting, stay with us because at the end I want to hear from you. |
| 1:20.1 | I know that sounds weird, why humans aren't biologically designed to be happy but we're going to tell you what you can do to basically negate that how you can change that and take control of it. |
| 1:31.0 | How you can redesign your mind. Yes. Oh I like that. |
| 1:35.1 | Redesign your mind. Yeah that's good. |
| 1:36.8 | Title for a book. But let me read a testimonial first and we want you to submit them because we put all the testimonials |
| 1:47.0 | or the reviews, even the bad ones, into a drawing for a free book. |
| 1:56.6 | So, hi Daniel and Tana, I wanted to let you know |
| 1:59.6 | how you change my life. |
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