Cant speak for nurse science and i think they see it differently because of modern medical model suggests that happiness is the natural default state and if youre not happy all the time then thats a disease and they can fix you and i absolutely disagree because when i Study Research about research on the animal brain from the past it shows that animals have the same happy chemicals that we have and theyre not just signed to be on all the time theyre designed to alert you to specific opportunities and thats what makes. And this is such a great point because many philosophers many writers have long approached happiness as a kind of a metaphysical category but whats interesting about it and whats practical about this approach is that it treats it as essentially a regulatory system and that if what informs you on the things that either threaten oprah mold to your survival there is nothing philosophical about it as far as i can get its pure chemistry right. Youve summarized it perfectly. Ho
Alone and welcome to world a part of if you want to be happy just be this not similar mistakingly attributed to leo tolstoy whom by the way was a very unhappy person has nonetheless supported in your science far from it the physics the feel good why is it a result of our daily actions and expectations how to maximize it in a world that seems to be so prominently on the ads and on actual depressants while to discuss that im now joined by at letter at the burning Professor Emeritus of management at polygamist a university and author of the habits of the happy brain dr burning its so great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. Thanks so much for having me now the pursuit of happiness is stated as an amiable right in the years declaration of independence and it is defined there as. F. Street striving towards joy as long as a does not violate the rights of others so even the american Founding Fathers day and a half centuries ago defined it as something for us actionable and 2nd
Let me put it thats right. I will give you little commercial here all week finish up the last details and production here. Were glad youre here today. The Detroit Historical society is pleased to host this very special event. After todays presentation, if, you are welcome i to stay as log as my credit there a lot of new things and will find very interesting. In fact on first floor, i think you will see some of the stories and some of the recollections were here today. Come to life through some videos and some artwork and photographs prince of the motown music venture we will be reference is also featured upstairs. So please dont miss that before you leave. The format today, we will have a discussion and our guest today were very pleased to have an david, of prizewinning off author of a new book called once a great city. [laughter]. Question on that. And it is a great book. But of course, it is for sale in a bookstore. So after the presentation if youre interested in purchasing the book
Abc special correspondent dr. Nt alok patel. Dr. Patel, good afternoon, good to see you and thanks for joining us. Good to digitally see you as well. Yes, thats how we got to do it these days. Dr. Patel, lets start off by giving you a big picture of what we see in california. We hear cases are going up. What does that really mean . California is one of over 20 cases where theyve gone up including napa and marin county. Theres a wide variety of factors of why this may be. Some suspect it was related to memorial day, which was a little bit more than two weeks ago and people kind of getting quarantine fatigue and going outside and breaking some of those physical distancing measures, and so we just have to be a little bit more vigilant and see how this plays out as more businesses reopen. One of the things we continue to hear though is, oh, well, testing is really going cases are going up because testing is going up. What do you make of that . What i make of that is its multifactorial. Yes
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