Knowledge doesn't make you happy because your brain evolved to detect threats, leaving you stuck in chronic worry. The fix is repeated practice to rewire your brain away from fear and toward resilience.
A lot of people in search of happiness focus on learning. They're continuously doing new programs reading the latest book Knowledge is just not Enough. The reason we struggle so much, the reason we have so much stress and anxiety in our lives despite all the prosperity is we have come to the edge of our ability of our brain to truly keep us happy or happier in this world. You see our brains evolved over millions of years to protect us from physical threat by preparing us and our bodies to react really really quickly, anticipate threats and react to them in those mom of those identity oriented psychological threats 9 out of 10 never come out to be and yet we continuously worry and overreact to them and so that is the state of where we are operating from dear friends. And so knowing all this doesn't help us. What helps us is practice, continuous practice so that we can over time rewire our brains away from this fear mindset to a mindset that allows us to be happier and more resilient.
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