“We are evolutionarily hard-wired to prioritize negative stimuli because of the survival advantages this gives us. Evolution is blind, and it doesn’t necessarily care about our happiness. That’s up to us.”
Book:The Arrows of Zen
Quote by Ernest Cadorin
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