Why You Can’t Stop Creating Problems in Your Mind We’re not built to be happy. We’re built to survive. Our brains are designed to worry, and they’re good at it. They’re built to determine the next big thing to “fix.” This is a great thing. It’s a cognitive feature that has led us to evolve the way we have. We’ve developed every major industry (agriculture, medicine, religion) out of some kind of fear: death, disorder, starvation, meaninglessness. The part of the brain that controls rumination also controls creativity. There’s no coincidence in this. We were born to survive, which is to create. If you feel like you can’t stop worrying, can’t stop creating problems for yourself, can’t stop shifting your anxiety from one corner of your life to the next, can’t just sit back and enjoy and be grateful and happy, it’s not because there’s something wrong with you. There’s something wrong with your understanding of the human brain and happiness. We weren’t built to be “happy...
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