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For a Happier Life, Do One of These 3 Super-Simple Things
You can’t make things better without changing anything
Sometimes, according to psychology, what we need is a good old visit from Captain Obvious. Today, that’s me.
Why do we forget that sometimes the best solution is the most simple?
Because of something called the Einstellung effect, where we rely so much on experience and all the things that have happened to us before, all the things we’ve tried that have previously worked, that we completely forget to consider the obvious – even when that’s a far better way.
So let’s ignore all we’ve learned, all the complicated therapy techniques, all the solutions we’ve found through experimentation and the tough university of life, and go right back to the blindingly obvious. Because, well, we’re often blind to it.
It’s also where the simplest of gems lie.
There are actually only three things we can do to change our life situations, when broken down into their simplest forms.
1. If You Want to Change Your Life, You Must Actually Change Something Within It
If something has worked before to make us happier, we’ll try it again and again long…
