Unhappiness is our brain’s natural default state, but we’re taught that happiness is “normal.” This makes your natural ups and downs seem like a disorder. It suggests that others are happy and you are missing out. It diverts you from building skills that would actually spark your happy brain chemicals. Why are we getting such bad information about our biology? It’s politics. Not politics in the sense of electing leaders, but politics in the sense of winning support by saying what’s popular. Dr. Loretta Graziano Breuning explains how our brain evolved to promote survival, not to make us happy. And explains how we can rewire our brain for more happy chemicals. She has a BS from Cornell U and a PhD from Tufts U and is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and is Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay.