
467 The Happiness Equation with Mo Gawdat
The School of Greatness
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The Three Types of Thoughts That Cause Pain
When you have a moment of pain or suffering, where do you go to? What's your approach to life to getting back to? So you have again, it all goes to understanding. You can trace that emotion back not to an event, interestingly, but to a thought. And so mostly what I do now is whenever I feel there is an overwhelming emotion or a painful feeling coming to me, I start by asking, is it true by the way, brain? Are you presenting me the whole truth? If it is, what can we do about it? and then design a path forward that makes world slightly better than how it is now. That's Solve for happy.com.
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