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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The speaker mentioned this book because the author suggests that the common cultural definition of love is too narrow, proposing instead that love is any moment of trusting, biologically resonant exchange of goodwill and understanding with another human.
One of my favorite love thinkers is Barbara Fretrickson. I don't know if you've spoken with her. But I know I'm really hurtful and she wrote her book Love 2.0 and basically her point is like we've got...
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The speaker mentioned this book because the author suggests that the common cultural definition of love is too narrow, proposing instead that love is any moment of trusting, biologically resonant exchange of goodwill and understanding with another human.
One of my favorite love thinkers is Barbara Fretrickson. I don't know if you've spoken with her. But I know I'm really hurtful and she wrote her book Love 2.0 and basically her point is like we've got love all wrong.
Love is anytime you're with another human and you're just having a trusting, biologically resonant moment where you're exchanging goodwill and understanding and benevolence. That is a moment of love and it doesn't mean as much as we like to think it means to have those moments of love.