Finally, the practice of gratitudeappears to be incompatible with negative emo-tions and thus may reduce feelings of envy,anger, or greed.
Imagine telling Elon Musk to count his blessings, lol
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In addition, people who commitacts of kindness may begin to view themselvesas altruistic people
The "may" here causes me to consider the implied "may not" group, possibly people with depression or other generally self-deprecating attitudes who may think poorly of themselves due to some internalization but do want to help others.
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Thus, a per-son who “suffers for a cause” might still feelvery happy because her suffering demonstratesher commitment to, and also perhaps moves hercloser to obtaining, an important life goal.
Just think it's interesting in this article that they continue to provide gendered examples per a man's and woman's experiences of happiness and that it is the woman suffering for a cause. Made me think of nuns, but maybe religious-based happiness is adjacent to this conversation.
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Sometimes choosing to endure boring or evenaversive experiences in the short term can haveconsiderable positive effects on chronic happi-ness in the long term;
This seems to be one of the most difficult parts of increasing chronic happiness for people with mental illness or disabilities. It is easy to read this text from the perspective of someone able-bodied and neurotypical, but we should keep in mind those who are not. This could open up a larger conversation about our society, how we treat these people, and in what ways society lacks benefits for them to increase their long-term happiness. Just some thoughts, not being passive-aggressive :)
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Furthermore, such effort may constitutea limited resource, one that must be marshaledcarefully; in Muraven and Baumeister’s (2000)terms, self-regulatory will is like a “muscle”that has limited capacity in a given unit of timeand must be used strategically to avoid fatigue.
For me this calls into question consideration for ADD/ADHD and anyone else who experiences executive dysfunction, which is essentially the inability to start tasks. Would this be one of the "obstacles" that is being referred to here, specifically within the metaphor of a "muscle" for self-regulation/self-discipline?
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