Read This Story and Get Happier
The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy. We took it for you.
By Adam Sternbergh Illustrations by Zohar Lazar
In the article, one of the suggestions is...
Extra Credit
Keep a Daily Gratitude Journal For the next week, write down at least five things for which you’re grateful every day. These can be big things (your kids) or small things (the Twizzlers you bought at the corner deli didn’t taste like they’d been there for eight months). One study found that, in severely depressed patients, taking the time to record just three things daily over 15 days led to a reported increase in well-beingin 94 percent of respondents.I don't know if I will be doing the whole "five things a day for a week", but I can certainly give a go at trying to focus on both the big and small things that I am grateful for, or that stood out as inducing happiness!
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