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Anxiety and Happiness Motivates Us
Just as anxiety evolved to help motivate adaptive behaviors, happiness has also evolved to help motivate adaptive behaviors.
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Happiness Is Only a Proximate Goal
Happiness is a proximate outcome. It matters, and it is nice. But it is not an ultimate evolutionary outcome.
Thus, we may be thrilled to have a piece of chocolate cake on the table in front of us at a birthday party. But t...
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Negative Emotions Exist for a Reason
Anxiety is not pleasant, but it is a substantial feature of human psychology for a reason. And ameliorating anxiety fully, as demonstrated by Nesse’s anecdote, can actually be maladaptive and counterproductive.
Negative emotions, such as anxiety and
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Why happiness is a good thing? and why do we want it so badly? Is this the ultimate goal of our evolution? to ameliorate negative emotions? I find these ideas important as it reminds me that having anxiety is normal just like being happy. They help us motivate in life to survive just like what our ancestors did.
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