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Comparing ourselves to others is a surefire way to feel worse about our own lives.
Mindfulness helps us break free from the autopilot mode that often leads to unhappiness.
We often think happiness is about getting what we want, but it's more about wanting what we have.
The science shows that our minds lie to us about what will make us happy.
We are all capable of change, but we have to believe it's possible first.
The more we understand our biases, the more we can use them to our advantage.
Fear can be a useful signal, but it shouldn't be the only voice we listen to.
The stories we tell ourselves about our lives shape our reality.
The future is something we can shape, not just something that happens to us.
Our brains are wired to look on the bright side, even when the evidence suggests otherwise.
Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
We are all self-righteous hypocrites.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.
Positive emotions are like nutrients for the mind, helping us grow and flourish.
The 40% solution: The capacity to increase happiness is within our personal control.
Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Positivity transforms us for the better. By opening our hearts and minds, positive emotions allow us to discover and build new skills, new ties, new knowledge, and new ways of being.
Positive emotions broaden our awareness and encourage novel, varied, and exploratory thoughts and actions. Over time, this broadened behavioral repertoire builds skills and resources.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.