"Our nervous systems are set so that most of us experience a loss of a certain magnitude as more punishing than we would experience a gain of the same magnitude. And the reason for that is our nervous systems are tilted to protect us and partly we're protected by anxiety and pain."
- Quote by Jordan Peterson
Date: May 31, 2010
Quote taken from The Agenda with Steve Paikin - Happiness and the Brain at 30:29.