Being Happy

And spend a bit more time with things that we find pleasurable and purposeful, which would include spending more time with people that we like being with, would include spending a bit more time outdoors, maybe listening to music. All of these things that I think most of us know if we stop and think for a moment would make us feel a bit happier. The interesting question is why we don't do more of it and helping others too makes us feel nice too. So all these things that we would get good feedback for if we paid attention to those experiences. But one of the reasons why we don't do those things more is we don't pay attention to those experiences as much as we might. We tell ourselves big stories about the things that we think should make us happy, buying more stuff, earning more money, the kind of narratives and stories that we tell ourselves or we're told by other people that sometimes deviate us off the path of using our time in those ways that make us happier.