The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary - Catherine Gray
The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary - Catherine Gray Underwhelmed by your ordinary existence? There are billions of us. Disillusioned with your middlin' wage, average body, 'bijou' living situation…
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The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary - Catherine Gray
Underwhelmed by your ordinary existence? There are billions of us. Disillusioned with your middlin' wage, average body, 'bijou' living situation and imperfect loved ones?Welcome to the club.
Two deeply inconvenient psychological phenomenons conspire against our satisfaction. The 'default disenchanted'.But, it's not us being brats. We have negatively-biased brains, which zoom like doom-drones in on what's wrong with our day, rather than what's right.
(Back in the mists of time, this negative bias saved our skins, but now it just makes us anxious). Also, something called the 'hedonic tread