Why Unhappiness Is as Important as Happiness

Loretta G. Breuning, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute, spent years researching the origin and theories that revolve around happiness. She explains to Bay Area Innovators’ Steve Ispas the reason for happiness from a biological perspective, as well as the history and popular ideas of how to pursue happiness. “Humans are unhappy a lot, because our brain naturally creates a lot of unhappiness. It has an important function, it alerts us when there’s important information that we should be cautious about,” Breuning said. “So if we are trained to define this natural unhappiness as a disorder, then we need a lot of services.”...