'Most of life is workaday, humdrum and pedestrian... So why not embrace the joy of the ordinary? We've got nothing to lose.' cathgraywrites implores us to celebrate the everyday 🙌🥳️✨ with top advice on how to do it 👇 wednesdaywisdom
It’s that time of year when our eternal pursuit of happiness gets shifted back up the to-do list, as we focus our energies and plans on the big achievements and radical life changes that we hope will make us ‘truly happy’. But what if we could make ourselves ‘default happy’, just by embracing the ordinary?
“In order to override it you need to use some tricks, such as gratitude, random acts of kindness, and simply noticing the positives, rather than letting our negatively-biased brains autopilot to all the negatives. “[I discovered] eight gratitudes a day is the perfect amount, any more and you're diluting it. You don't want to say over and over again, ‘I'm grateful for my dog’. You need to find the specific thing about the dog you're grateful for. Maybe you two had a really nice walk that day? I’ve been doing it for six years which means I’m literally looking for things to be grateful for, which means that I find them. It’s confirmation bias, it’s just psychology. It works.
“When you first meet your partner, they're amazing, everything's fresh and new and wild. But you inevitably ‘hedonically adapt’ to them. Even if you're dating Liam Hemsworth or Mila Kunis. So as long as you know that no matter who you're with that's going to happen, then you can adjust your expectations.”
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