When we make a mistake, our impulse is often to last rate ourselves and say, I can't believe you did that. You should never do that again. Or you're such an idiot or whatever it is thinking the more pain we create, the more we'll motivate ourselves to get it together next time. Dr Fredrickson has so brilliantly said that feelings are not just end states. It was their generative states. So it's now I felt good. And when you're in a positive good space, you tend to make positive good decisions. The better you can get yourself feeling the more your life expands.

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