From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness

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Introduction

Introduction

- So, in the past few chapters, you've been exposed to some of the fundamental principles about the human brain and how it evolved to sabotage your happiness. You've also discovered a very remarkable new piece of evidence for brain science that exposes why your brain is fundamentally a social organ driven for that sense of belonging, that sense of community, that sense of group identity. The State of the American Workplace survey exposed an alarming statistic. The first statistic is that roughly only one-third of US employees report feeling engaged at work. What this implies is that over two-thirds of the employee population in the United States are experiencing disengagement, and that translates into over $500 billion of lost revenue. If that's not a wake-up call to the corporate world, what is? So, let's look at solutions to help, not you as an individual to find more engagement and a sense of purpose, a sense…

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