Hardwiring happiness: Dr. Rick Hanson at TEDxMarin 2013
Hardwiring Happiness : The Hidden Power of Everyday Experiences on the Modern Brain. How to overcome the Brain's Negativity Bias. Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist and the author of Hardwiring...
========== Translator: Rhonda Jacobs
Reviewer: Peter van de Ven Wow. So what I want to do here, if I could, is share with you a very simple,
yet powerful method, grounded in neuroscience, for turning passing experiences
into lasting structure, useful structure, inside our brain. In other words, turning experiences
into the happiness, or the resilience, or the other inner strengths
that we really want inside ourselves. I sort of stumbled on this method
when I was in college, but to explain the context,
I have to take you back a little before, into my own up-and-down childhood. So, I grew up in a loving home -
good parents, intact family - but I was very, very young
going through school - I have a late birthday
and I skipped a grade. And that combined with my k...