Our ancestors had to make some pretty drastic accommodations as the world progressed to where we are today.

In prehistoric days, you couldn’t be too content if you wanted to survive which led to what is called the negativity bias – where we focus on the negative to remind us to pursue the positive.  Sounds good, but it tends to cause our brains to wander and forget about all the good in our lives – that tires us out and we then get fatigued brain.

The brain is designed for safety.  We have to train it to be happy as former Mayo Clinic physician and author Amit Sood says “because our system is biased to focus on the negative, threats, imperfections, regrets.”

“Happiness is a skill.”

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