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When Guilt is Good... and When it's Not

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

Are You Setting Unrealistic Expectations?

Sally Kohn: We sometimes have expectations that aren't necessarily helping us. One of my faverite ideas in the book is cases where we have what you might call vague expectations. So, i'm going to work out more. Well, maybe you did. Maybe last week you didn't work out at all and this week you worked out twice. But you feel guilty because you still haven't done enough. And so when you find yourself in the hole, i've not done enough for i need to do more, ask, well, how much would be enough? How much is more?

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