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This solution summarizes the main points of Etcoff's video in 368 words.

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-Individuals are wired to want to be happy; people don't know how to not want to be happy.

-Lots of Advice online.

-Prozac leads the way to medicate and become happy, however these ways of becoming happy have proved to be short-term and non-effective long-term.

-Money spent on multiple programs and/or drugs to make individuals happy does not correlate to being happy.

-The negative emotional system is extremely sensitive, mostly for our safety. We are much more sensitive to bitter tastes than sweet tastes.

-Individuals take losing much harder than expressing ...

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