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Happiness · Saying it

Say it while it's good

In a good moment, say so, out loud, to whoever's there. "This is good." Then stay in it another minute.

no timeEvidence: worth trying

Men are good at noticing what's wrong and bad at noticing what's right while it's happening. In a survey of adults, the people who told someone about good moments and stayed in them reported higher wellbeing; the ones who got distracted or moved straight on reported less. Evidence: worth trying

Correlation, self-report, no trial of doing it on purpose. But the mechanism is the same one that makes a good day feel like nothing happened: you were already thinking about the next thing.

It costs one sentence and feels slightly odd the first time.

Source: Quoidbach et al., 2010, Personality and Individual Differences (link)

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