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The Science Of Happiness
Recent events have a bigger impact on happiness than earlier events, so it can be a good strategy to save a couple of things that have a chance of a big positive surprise for the last few days of your trip.
Do you think outside influences tend to push us toward having too high expectations for future experiences?
If you have low expectations all of the time, you may not be motivated to try new things or take risks, because you don't expect things to go well.
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Expectations Are Important for Happiness
- Research suggests that expecting too much of future experiences may contribute to unhappiness.
- Your brain is always on the lookout for surprises-you don't change your beliefs when everything goes as expected
- You want to have realistic expectations because accurate expectation...
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Lowering Expectations: The Vacation
You go on a vacation with your family, and it rains. That wasn’t something they were imagining; so, the beach is not as fun as they expected it to be, and they could be disappointed.
If you are almost about to leave on a trip and you can tell that someone’s expectations are a little too h...
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Precontemplation
At this stage, you have no conscious intention of making a change. People in this stage tend to avoid reading, talking, or thinking about unhealthy behavior. However, their awareness and interest may be sparked by outside influences.
The optimistic bias toward the future
There’s an extreme positivity bias toward the future: we think that future events are more important to our identity than the past events.
But we have to temper our expectations and keep in mind that no matter the degree in which we can dream up detailed scenes of things yet to come,
The right mindset for successful learning
A strategy to adopt is to embrace relearning opportunities. It may mean there's a chance you'll fail, but adopting a policy of embracing opportunities will lead to better skills in the long-run.
Acting as if you have not forgotten when you choose projects might push you to...
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