” When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, ‘My behavior matters,’ which is optimism. “
” What we’ve been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They’re afraid of happiness because they think we’ll stagnate or we’ll be blind: that if I’m happy now, I won’t keep fighting as hard. If I’m happy now, I won’t push as hard to make a better world. That’s what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite. “
” Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us. “
” Positive and engaged brains are a company’s greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy. “
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