Loretta Graziano Breuning Quotes

#1. Things go wrong occasionally, but when you focus on that, you miss the enormity of what goes right.

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#2. When a monkey loses a banana to a rival, he feels bad, but he doesn't expand the problem by thinking about it over and over. He looks for another banana. He ends up feeling rewarded rather than harmed. Humans use their extra neurons to construct theories about bananas and end up constructing pain.

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#3. Many people stimulate that good serotonin feeling by trying to rescue others. Feeling like a hero is a reliable way to stimulate your serotonin. But the good feeling soon passes and you have to rescue again. Sometimes rescuers reward bad behavior in others because they are so eager to rescue.

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#4. Reality can't live up to your expectations because you keep building new expectations.

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#5. You may say you're "anti-status," but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.

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#6. If you want to be happy with your music all the time, start exposing yourself to unfamiliar music now, so it will be in the sweet spot by the time you've worn out the old pleasures.

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#7. You can increase your pleasure if you're willing to do things that don't feel good at first.

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#8. A mouse who fails to get the cheese tries again without kicking herself for being an idiot.

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#9. child, the happy chemicals built connections. When

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