Dr. Rick Hansonwrote, "...to help our ancestors survive, the brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones." Rick is a co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.