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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The pursuit of happiness is a myth. We’ve been told that happiness is the goal, but in reality, it is right there in front of us, behind the curtain of our own brain. It matters because it explains the differences between pleasure and happiness, and it explains why so many people are miserable.
#2 Pleasure is the visceral readout of activity in a specific brain area known as the reward pathway. It is the motivation for a given reward, and the consummation of that reward as a visceral experience called pleasure.
#3 The science of happiness is very complex, and there is not one definition of it. What it means to be happy is different depending on the times in which you live, your religious and cultural affiliations, and likely the language you use.
#4 Happiness has been the main stated goal of life since the Renaissance, when people were asked their primary desire. But despite our five-hundred-year gaze on the prize, as a whole we consistently miss the target.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	09 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669351924
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The pursuit of happiness is a myth. We’ve been told that happiness is the goal, but in reality, it is right there in front of us, behind the curtain of our own brain. It matters because it explains the differences between pleasure and happiness, and it explains why so many people are miserable.

#2

Pleasure is the visceral readout of activity in a specific brain area known as the reward pathway. It is the motivation for a given reward, and the consummation of that reward as a visceral experience called pleasure.

#3

The science of happiness is very complex, and there is not one definition of it. What it means to be happy is different depending on the times in which you live, your religious and cultural affiliations, and likely the language you use.

#4

Happiness has been the main stated goal of life since the Renaissance, when people were asked their primary desire. But despite our five-hundred-year gaze on the prize, as a whole we consistently miss the target.

#5

Positive psychology studies positive emotions, positive traits, and positive institutions in an attempt to make your life more positive. However, many confuse pleasure with happiness. You can’t fix the problem if you don’t know what it is.

#6

The difference between pleasure and happiness is that pleasure is gratification or reward, and happiness is well-being or human flourishing.

#7

This book is about the two most unhappy states of the human condition: addiction and depression. They are the result of chronic excessive reward, which eventually leads to both addiction and depression.

#8

You are in charge of your own thoughts and emotions, but you share the process of emotion generation and its experience with every other human on the planet. Your feelings of reward and contentment are just downstream readouts of your neurochemistry.

#9

The brain’s limbic system is made up of three major pathways that send and receive chemical information that is translated into positive and negative emotions. The interplay between these three pathways dictates both the perception of emotion and the resultant behavioral responses.

#10

The first system is the stress-fear-memory pathway, which consists of three areas. The amygdala, or your stress center, is in communication with the hypothalamus, which controls the stress hormone cortisol. The hippocampus, or your memory center, interprets memories as both good and bad. The prefrontal cortex, or your wise area of the brain, inhibits behaviors that put you at risk.

#11

Happiness is a complex emotion that is triggered by sending the serotonin signal. It is determined by the receptor that is receiving that signal, which changes how you experience it. Other positive emotional phenomena, such as joy, elation, rapture, and the mystical experience, likely take the same roads but end up taking different exits.

#12

Emotions such as reward and contentment are rooted in the brain’s pathways, and manipulating them either externally through drugs or internally through a wayward passion can turn a simple positive emotion into a weapon of mass destruction.

#13

The rimonabant experiment shows us that the biochemistry drives the behavior. It also shows us that things that interfere with the normal functioning of the limbic system will increase your anxiety, which will reduce your pleasure.

#14

The reward and contentment pathways are constantly being confused in the brain, and this can lead to some serious hot water. The biochemistry always comes first.

#15

The three types of love are eros, philia, and agape. Eros is the intense infatuation you feel for your partner at the beginning of a relationship, and it is based on testosterone, estrogen, and a lack of reality. It is like a transient obsession. Philia is the more chill love you feel for friends and family members, and it is based on a mother’s love for her children.

#16

The process of falling in love is full of mystery, but the reward system is what drives it. In other words, it’s the feeling of social connection that comes with marriage that makes people happy.

#17

Love is not a page-turner. It is not exciting. It is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.

#18

The differences between infatuation and love are just one example of the general dichotomies between reward and contentment. First is the experience of the motivation, of the pursuit. This is often followed by the heightening of visceral reward in the attainment of physical and sexual responses, which is followed by a consummation of the entire reward experience in the form of sexual release.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The drive to obtain reward is what drives humans and other species to do everything. It is what drives us to work, to eat, to mate, and to destroy the One Ring.

#2

The reward pathway is where some of our most basic survival instincts are housed and expressed. It is a two-way street between the motivation and pleasure pathways, with two sets of neurochemicals and two sets of receptors.

#3

Dopamine is a Jekyll-Hyde neurotransmitter. It is responsible for mediating the reward pathway, and it is important that it stays within the optimal range. If you are obese, you are already past that central optimum, on the right side of the dopamine curve.

#4

The bell-shaped curve of dopamine is common among women. It varies depending on where you start on the curve, and your estrogen levels. Around 25 percent of women start on the left side of the curve because they have the Val158Val genotype, which means they have less dopamine hanging around.

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