You don't want to live a lonely life because it's bad for you. Is one of the tricks to find goals that you know you would be proud to achieve? Are we gaming it so that those emotions will be easier to experience by sort of self-selecting into the right kinds? Yeah, there's two ways. No matter what your goal is, as long as... You have to see it as something of some value or it's not going to be a goal. But even for ones that it's really hard to feel pride about initially, if you make yourself feel grateful, but entirely other things, they still decrease the amount that you're going to discount the value of that
What's the best way to build self-control, patience, productivity, and delayed marshmallow eating? For decades psychologists and economists have told us to develop traits like willpower and grit. But psychologist David DeSteno describes a better, easier, and more effective path--the emotions. We talk to David about his new (not-self-help) book "Emotional Success," which argues that the emotions of gratitude, pride, and compassion can help us fulfill long-term goals and (as a special bonus) make us happier and better people.
Plus, David and Tamler take a quiz that measures how utilitarian they are, and you won't believe the results!!! (Actually, you will.)
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Special Guest: Dave DeSteno.
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