Evening friends. Spent the afternoon enjoying the company of friends and family. Including enjoying a lecture from the “love doctor,” Paul Zak PhD. Dr. Zak gave us a practice run on his upcoming lecture for TED in Scotland. He told us about the amazing hormone, oxytocin, which Dr. Zak tells us is the morality hormone. It increases any time we have increased social connection. Oxytocin makes people trust, empathize and have increased moral behaviors. Dr. Zak’s prescription is eight hugs a day (hugs increase oxytocin). Awesome.
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