Why are we happy?

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Tue, 09/20/2011 - 08:03
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.

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Tue, 09/20/2011 - 08:15
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Carlos Sourdis
5 days ago: Yet another piece of enlightening information pointing to the fact that reality is a construct taking place within our minds and to the huge influence the inner chat we constantly sustain with our own selves has over what we so definitively are used to call "reality". Happiness is just and no more less than an attitude, an option. The difficulty in taking and following that option is we are addicted to live in "survival mode" and to the chemical cocktail of neuropepetides and corticoids our organism produces when it's under the typical stress associated with living in that mode, always feeling sorry or guilty about the past and worried or afraid of the future and, in doing so, crunching the present between two illusions.

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