The Importance of Moment to Moment Content in Happiness

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Gratitude is definitely a practice, right? It's something that we are capable of cultivating in ourselves. Potentially because these contrast effects are not so robust and not so long lasting. So I feel like it's maybe helpful for some people to have had the negative experience because it lets them be more grateful. But it's not by any means guaranteed that it's actually going to lead to gratitude.

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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?

Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.

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