Manufacture your Happiness

This is a great Ted.com talk! Dan Gilbert discusses each of us has the power to create our happiness and it does not come from the outside world. I love his summary:

“The lesson I want to leave you with, from this data, is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience”

He discusses a study they conducted where when people were given a choice of a painting and one group could come back and choose a different one, another group could only pick once and then keep it. The happiest group was the group who did NOT have the choice to return/to make another decision. They decided to be happy with what they had instead.

Choose to be happy today :)!

Plethora of Positivity

I did not post the past couple days, so here is our conglomerate of inspiration for Wednesday!

“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.”-Dan Stevens

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“Success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and it is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”-Bertrand Russell

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