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#021 - Susanna Halonen - The Happyologist; What Science Says Makes Life Happier

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Is There Anything That Makes You Happy?

There is a whole chemical reaction that happens in your body when you smile and actually even a fake smile can trigger it. And best of all, with the smiling, it's also very contagious. If you go to an intro room and you smile at people, you not the mirror neurons in the back of their brains or automatically get activated and they immediately want to reciprocate and smile back at you. I mean, that's just something that evolutionarily is something that happens naturally without you thinking about it. You have to try really hard not to smile when somebody just giving you. Yeah, 100%. So I think that’s just something to remind yourself of as simple as that, just

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