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At the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, Center Founder Richard Davidson brings the latest neuroscience to our understanding of well-being.
He shares how we can change our brains by cultivating habits of mind that will improve well-being. These include happiness, resilience, compassion and emotional balance – each of which is instantiated in brain circuits that exhibit plasticity and can be shaped by experience and training.
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