David Bueno: "We have commercialized happiness"

"We have commercialized happiness, and we believe that if we are not happy, we are miserable," David Bueno emphasized in the talk "Do you know how your brain works?", which he gave on October 22nd at the Byron bookstore for the ARA Premium Club. The science communicator and ARA collaborator explained the difference between happiness and well-being. "Well-being is more flat than happiness. It has uncomfortable emotional states, such as frustration, disappointment, and sadness, which have no place in happiness and which allow well-being to be maintained. These uncomfortable emotional states are telling us that something is not right and we need to change." David Bueno emphasized that stress is one of the brain's worst enemies. "We should have at least 45 minutes each day to do nothing," he proposed, something he himself tries to practice. And he concluded optimistically: "In this changing society, if we can, we should be the driving force of change."

This talk is part of the ARA Premium Club's program of activities, which combines meetings with journalists and contributors to the newspaper with numerous visits—sometimes including lunch—across the country to better understand our extraordinary cultural and natural heritage. Among the upcoming talks, we can highlight those exploring two essential elements of our industrial heritage: aGuided tour of the Urgell Canal –one of the country's major infrastructures– and a dramatized visit to Colonia Vidal, in the locations where the series was filmed Smell of cologne.

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