A lot of our work was looking at how these social emotions make people willing to invest in others and cooperate with others. And then we realized, well, I mean, what is cooperation except really an intertemporal dilemma? We started looking at how it affects your own behaviors for your own future self. Same thing with pride. It's basically giving you grit from the bottom up. So do I feel gratitude that certain things have worked out for me in my life? Yeah. Even though I spend my life teaching statistics and realize I probably shouldn't, but yet I do.
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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