A doctor’s advice for inner happiness is so easy that I wasn’t a believer until I tried it.

Honestly, just watching this makes me happier.

Mind you, Dr. Amit Sood is not a self-help author or a salesman of snake oil or a motivational storyteller aiming to sell high speaking fees. He’s a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a well-respected researcher and practitioner of integrated medicine.

Sood put together the following short on how to cultivate a (very) happy brain. It’s backed by an evidence base, and it’s powerful. So go ahead and give his lessons a try. It’s the doctor’s orders.


A Happy Brain

Meet Broody (work with me, people). He is an unhappy brain that struggled with fear and self-doubt.

Broody’s friend took him to a class on happy brains. He would go on to learn a lot.

Three Traits of the Brain

But What Does This All Mean?

It’s really that simple.

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