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Coal Waste Could Power Tomorrow’s Batteries
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Coal Waste Could Power Tomorrow’s Batteries

byGreatNewsPodFebruary 13, 2026February 13, 2026
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the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day
the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.

the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…

Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast.

Today's quote comes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, philosopher, and one of the most psychologically penetrating writers in the history of literature.

A man who was sentenced to death by firing squad, reprieved at the last possible moment while already standing before the guns, sent to four years of hard labour in Siberia, and who spent much of his life in the grip of epilepsy and crippling debt.

A man who had every reason to count only troubles but understood something that allowed him to see past all of his.

From his collection Notes from Underground, he wrote:

”Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”Dostoyevsky wrote that in the 19th century. A hundred and fifty years later, neuroscience caught up with him and confirmed every word.

Psychologist Rick Hanson put it this way: the brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones. It isn't a character flaw. It isn't weakness or ingratitude. It's biology.

Our brains evolved to prioritize threats. The amygdala, the brain's threat-detection centre, responds to negative stimuli with roughly twice the neural activation of positive ones.

Hanson describes how negative experiences are instantly registered and intensely stored in what he calls implicit memory, the deep feeling of what it is like to be alive. And that implicit memory bank gets shaded darker and darker by the slowly accumulating residue of negative experiences, while positive ones largely pass through without sticking.

Here's what that means in practical terms. Think about a day where nine things went well and one thing went wrong. Where does your mind go at the end of that day? Where does it go at 2am when you can't sleep? The nine disappear. The one expands until it fills the room. Not because you're pessimistic. Because your brain was built that way.

Researcher John Gottman found that it takes at least five positive interactions to make up for the emotional weight of a single negative one. The deck is structurally stacked against happiness, unless you actively intervene.

And that intervention is exactly what Dostoyevsky is pointing toward. Not toxic positivity. Not pretending the troubles aren't real. But the deliberate, conscious act of calculating your happiness with the same attention you automatically give to your troubles. Counting what went right. Noticing what is already good. Holding the positive long enough for it to actually register.

Hanson's research suggests that for a positive experience to encode into long-term memory, it needs to be held in conscious attention for at least ten to twenty seconds, otherwise it simply disappears. And now with the internet and social media amplifying bad news and and catastrophe from all all around the world it makes things even worse.

Because news media knows very well that our brains are wired to pay attention to negative news so that is what they give us. In the attention economy the money is in the doom and gloom.

And that is why I started the Great News podcast and the Daily Quote. To spread the good news and prove that the world is a better place than you might think.

So here's the question: At the end of today, before you fall asleep tonight, what if you spent two minutes calculating your happiness with the same diligence your brain automatically applies to your troubles? Or maybe write it down in a gratitude journal. We've talked about those recently too.Do not deny the hard things. Don't pretend the problems don't exist. But count the other column too, the one your brain skips over by default. The kindness you received. The moment that worked. The small thing that was, quietly, good.

That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern and I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
May 16, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower – “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”
May 15, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Lupita Nyong’o – “Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”
May 14, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
May 13, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Laurie Buchanan – “What we don’t change, we choose.”
May 12, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
John C. Maxwell – “Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it but what we become by it.”
May 11, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”
May 10, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Unknown Author – “Remember, the life you’re comparing yours to might be built on borrowed money.”
May 9, 2026
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George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
May 8, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Lee Iacocca – “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”
May 7, 2026
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The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
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Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

Turning Off Bad Genes

How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

China’s Gigantic Battery

How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
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Reversing Blindness with Cellular Rejuvenation and the Beating Heart-on-a-Chip
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Self-Spreading CRISPR and the Sun Battery That Outperforms Lithium-Ion
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Cancer-Eating Bacteria, 10-Passenger Flying Taxis, and the First Moon Harvest
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Lower Crime and More Energy
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Saving the Banana and Reversing Brain Aging
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Mushroom Boxes and Bacterial Mating
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How AI is Designing Custom Antibodies and Curing Cancer
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower – “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”

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    Lupita Nyong’o – “Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”

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    James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”

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    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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