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Don't Accentuate the Positive

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Secret to Happiness

Everything we think and feel is creating our future. Think good things and good things will come, drawn to you like a magnet. But as burne warned, if you're worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your life too. Even if you don't fully subscribe to the law of attraction, i bet you agree that thinking positively is probably a good thing. A little optimism is presumably still useful for meeting our goals. And it seems that too much negative thinking could bring us down. Does envisioning a positive future actually help it come about? And is it helping our happiness in the way we think our minds are constantly telling us what to do to be happy?

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