Make yourself happy
For better or worse, its our responsibility to make ourselves happy. It’s not someone else’s job to make you happy and it’s not your job to make someone else happy. Here’s a place to start.—MR
…expert tips for hacking your happy hormones
by Amy Fleming, The Guardian US, March 10, 2022
Loretta Breuning grew up around a lot of unhappiness, but couldn’t figure out why. To try to find out, she avidly read up on psychology, alongside raising two children and working as a professor in management at California State University. “I thought that, if I followed the research, it would make everybody happy all the time,” she says. “And then I saw that my students were not that motivated, my kids were not that motivated, and the kids of social science professors were not that motivated. So I started looking for the deeper roots of our motivation and our emotions.” She went on to write a book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels.
