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With perri klass presenting her new book a good time to be born and their talking with Andrew Solomon and before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to parry, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and to all of you for showing up. We are not able to host this event in our store space in our community as authors and readers is still here and we are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now, just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you and they can seat you are here though and you can see account of your fellow attendees at the top of your zumba screen. And there are a couple of functions we will be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your resume window and one is an icon labeled chat with ones Speech Bubble and youre welcome to post your comments and thoughts in the chat and thats a great way to show yo
A key speech should the bundestag chancellor merkel warns of tough months ahead in the battle against covert 19 and appeal directly to the german public not to underestimate the threat of a 2nd when. The death toll climbs in the breakaway negara no kind of back to the region as our median and azerbaijani leaders say now is not the time for peace talks. Plus colons l g b t community is being marginalized by the warsaw government it is hoping the european commissions new report on the rule of law could change that. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump and a democratic challenger joe biden have faced off on whats being called the worst president ial debate ever the chaotic 95 minute televised clash touched on issues including the coronavirus Race Relations and the economy but the discussion descended into a series of interruptions and personal mudslinging. President ial debates are meant to eliminate educate and engage this one offered up little of
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. However to add one more thing everyone is wired differently because despite the fact that its pure chemistry which turns the chemicals on and off is what ever turn them on and off in your unique individual youth which is just a random collection of experiences so one child in one family might have totally different experiences from another so whatever turn on my dope i mean insert tone and when i was young that gives me a pathway and thats how i seek it in the future but those pathways as far as i understand there are no old sad and stoned theyre pretty strong especially when theyre formed in a. Very young age but its still within the power of an individual to either reshape them or perhaps substitute that. With some other pathways yes exactly and i equated it to learning a Foreign Language in the sense that your old health ways are like your
It pretty much the same way. Actually my work is not representative of modern neuroscience i took early retirement to do my own thing separate from academia so i cant speak for nurse science and i think they see it differently because the 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