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Bear with me on this. I've been reading a lot lately, trying to improve my skills, the way I think etc. It's been the most worthwhile thing I've done with my life in ages, it's paid off in spades. I'm trying to better understand something, so i thought I'd work it out here because it relates to all of us.
The most recent book I've been reading is called "Hardwiring Happiness" and it talks about changing your brain to think positively as we are genetically predisposed to store negative experiences faster and retain them better. This all goes to early man and our need to identify threats in order to survive.
One of the points the author makes is in order for a positive thought to sink it, we have to really linger over it (something we're all bad at and need to train ourselves to do) or it has to make a deep impact with us, like really resonate. If it does that, it physically changes our brains.
That's where toys comes in, we all have strong vivid memories of getting our childhood friends. Some of us over the years can remember how a store smelled or Christmas morning details. I've probably heard 10,000 such ruminations over the years and they always have one thing in common, how well they've been retained. These experiences burned into our brains the way a groove does onto a vinyl lp.
They quite literally are, gateways to happiness. Actual triggers to positive thought.
Anyway, I'm not sure I'm not telling everybody what they don't already know, it was just a different way of looking at it that enlightened me this morning. Thanks for reading.
The most recent book I've been reading is called "Hardwiring Happiness" and it talks about changing your brain to think positively as we are genetically predisposed to store negative experiences faster and retain them better. This all goes to early man and our need to identify threats in order to survive.
One of the points the author makes is in order for a positive thought to sink it, we have to really linger over it (something we're all bad at and need to train ourselves to do) or it has to make a deep impact with us, like really resonate. If it does that, it physically changes our brains.
That's where toys comes in, we all have strong vivid memories of getting our childhood friends. Some of us over the years can remember how a store smelled or Christmas morning details. I've probably heard 10,000 such ruminations over the years and they always have one thing in common, how well they've been retained. These experiences burned into our brains the way a groove does onto a vinyl lp.
They quite literally are, gateways to happiness. Actual triggers to positive thought.
Anyway, I'm not sure I'm not telling everybody what they don't already know, it was just a different way of looking at it that enlightened me this morning. Thanks for reading.
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