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478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

Freakonomics Radio

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Dolly Lama, Is It Really That Simple?

You asked the dolly lama what to do when you feel contempt. His answer was, practise warm heartedness. And then as you write, he suggests that you back to a time when you answered contempt with Warm Heartedness and remember how that made you feel. Is it really that simple? Cause that sounds like even i could do that. It's amazingly good psychology. It's reversing an automatic process. There's a famous exercise that i teach to my harvard students in happiness. If you want to feel happier, if you put a pencil in your mouth and bite down, that wooll actually strain the orbiculars oculi muscles in the corner of your eyes

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