🙏 Everyday Miracles: Recognising Your Dream Moments

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• Author: Ali Abdaal
• Full Title: 🙏 Everyday Miracles: Recognising Your Dream Moments

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The brain is a survival machine, not an appreciation machine. It’s evolved to tune-out anything that’s going well, and focus only on things that are changing, or things that are negative. What’s the point of wasting brain power appreciating the present moment when you could be thinking about the lion that might maul your tribe in the night? But that’s not a particularly fun way to live. And so, we have to counteract our default tendency to only look at the negative, to only look at what’s changing or what will help us to survive (View Highlight) - Note: Gratitude