Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy. But each day is filled with opportunities to build inner strengths and Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed clinical psychologist, shows what you can do to override the brain’s default pessimism.

Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. You’ll learn to see through the lies your brain tells you.

Dr. Hanson’s four steps build strengths into your brain— counterbalancing its ancient negativity bias—making contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal. In mere minutes each day, you can transform your brain into a refuge and power center of calm and happiness.


生活不容易，而人類大腦天生就容易接收負面訊息，忽略了值得我們開心的事，這使我們失去自信、安全感及快樂，反而變得容易擔心、不耐煩、感到壓力。然而，每一天都充滿了重建內在力量的機會。瑞克．韓森博士是名備受讚譽的臨床心理學家，他示範如何每天將大腦的悲觀預設值歸零。

本書提供了一套簡單的方法，透過每天生活經驗的隱藏能量重建大腦的神經結構，再次充滿快樂、愛、自信與平靜，也學習如何識破大腦所釋放出來的謊言。

韓森博士提出產生大腦能量的四個步驟，與自古以來存在大腦的消極偏見抗衡，並且使您感到滿足，讓強韌的恢復力成為新常態。每天只需要短短幾分鐘，就能將大腦轉為平靜和快樂的發電廠。