Happiness Chemicals And How To Hack Them

How can insights from neuroscience support personal effectiveness? Have you ever met someone who could choose to always be their best self in every situation, both for others and for themselves?

I highly recommend a recent Ted talk by David JP Phillips. In his talk, David will share a cocktail of hormones key to self-leadership, rooted in deep personal lessons, as well as the secret that was eluding him in his first three TEDx talks.


I also recommend the article “How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness” highlighted below:
The amount of knowledge we have about the brain has doubled in the last 20 years. Yet there’s still a lot we don’t know.

Fact 1️⃣: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse.

Fact 2️⃣: As the mind changes, the brain changes.

Fact 3️⃣: You can use the mind to change the brain to change the mind for the better.


Practice Gratitude:
When people consciously practice gratitude, they are likely getting higher flows of reward-related neurotransmitters, like dopamine. Research suggests that when people practice gratitude, they experience a general alerting and brightening of the mind, and that’s probably correlated with more of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

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