1: Imagine two groups of bike riders that are getting ready to ride through the countryside.

“The first group,” Rachel Barr writes in How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend, “are instructed to take notice of the delightful things they experience along the way, to savor each sensation, like a brush of warm sun, or the pastoral charm of cows eyeing them with mild suspicion.”

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1: Rachel Barr‘s experience at college wasn’t great.

“After a string of unfulfilling jobs left me yearning for more, I ventured into university life a little later than my peers,” she writes in her book How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life.

“It was supposed to be a fresh start,” she notes.

It wasn’t.

“Soon into my undergraduate degree, … continue reading