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What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better

by Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth · 2003

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Profiles unhappiness as a chemical brain response that helped early humans survive, offering advice on how to achieve happiness by retraining brain activity, accepting a painful past, and designing a future.

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