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Based on the information you provided, rewiring the brain for happiness involves consistently engaging in practices that promote positive thinking and behavior for about 22 to 66 days. This consistent effort can lead to a rewiring of the brain, making it more automatic and effortless to experience happiness. Positive psychology also helps in understanding the true causes and effects of happiness, and changing the narrative and thinking patterns can contribute to this rewiring process. Finding true peace, love, and happiness within oneself can also lead to a greater enjoyment of the external world.

CHOOSING HAPPINESS WITH ROBERT MACK

So you're not gonna turn it around overnight or even in a week or even a month . Um We do know , but based on neuroplasticity research that if you can do something consistently for about 22 to 66 days , you begin to rewire the brain to do it much more automatically and effortlessly and hopefully even Enjoyably . Um But it takes time and it's really hard .

CHOOSING HAPPINESS WITH ROBERT MACK

And so that was the first challenge is that I didn't really know what direction to actually look . But even when I started finding things that I thought might work or might be helpful , I just had a whole lot of difficulty applying them consistently because you are , like you said , literally rewire your brain . You know , you've been practicing something for decades at that point .

CHOOSING HAPPINESS WITH ROBERT MACK

But when does that kind of model from disconnection of what you went through to suddenly studying , get into the brain ? So you can rewire that because a lot of people from an external , what you went through , what I went through with my struggles to get to a newfound place of happiness takes a lot of bloody work so much , Glenn so much . I mean , honestly , it , and I felt like I was recreating the will because there wasn't like a curriculum in place at the time .

CHOOSING HAPPINESS WITH ROBERT MACK

So it's really this study in science , an empirical study in science of what makes life worth living . Uh You can call it the science of happiness . It sort of goes beyond that .

CHOOSING HAPPINESS WITH ROBERT MACK

Um But it's also about the relationship between happiness and success . So lots of us have ideas about what leads to happiness . Um and , or success and most of those ideas um tend to be erroneous or flawed .