Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
According to Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who cites scientific data, after a year lotto winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives. Dan Gilbert is the author of the book Stumbling on Happiness. Toltecs have known for centuries that experience follows perception, and you have control over how you perceive life (through tools such as recapitulation). You can either perceive life in a positive way or a negative way. If you perceive a problem as a challenge that will empower you and help you grow, it will do just that – benefit you. How you perceive life around you is your choice. In the video below, Gilbert talks about how Homo Sapiens possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This amazing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience before it happens. This is something that neither ancient man/woman (Homo Habilis (2,000,000 years B.C) or animals can do (ancient man/woman didn’t have a Prefrontal Cortex). In his labs Gilbert has found
