Arthur Brooks

And they found that these subjects were significantly happier after the experiment than those who were not given any specific instructions.

In other words, if I just remind you to be fully present, you're going to be happier.

You're

This is especially clear for people who experience, here's the irony, for people who experience fewer positive events.

In other words, if you're living a life that is tough and you're going through a really tough time right now and you savor the moments that you like, you know, all of us go through these things.

We're really stressed out or really, really too busy.

But there's going to be a moment like, you know, the sun coming through the clouds a little bit, you stop and you say, yeah.

sunshine on my face and you savor it that will have a disproportionately joyful impact on you.

The less good there is the more good you get.

That's one of the benefits of savoring.

It also leads to happier memories later on, which is interesting that the more that you savor the present, the more you're going to remember the present when it becomes the past.

Because you lay down more intense memories in the hippocampus of your brain, the episodic memories are actually more distinct when you savor them.

It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

You remember the things where it feels like time slowed down because you were fully present.

By the way, this is one of the reasons that when you're in the middle of a car accident, it feels like time slows down because you're laying down hugely complex memory tracks in those moments.

You're savoring the experience of getting T-boned by a semi or something, which, you know, not so great, I suppose.

Actually, more on that later, because I want to tell you how negative events can be savored much to your advantage as well, but we're not there yet.

So savor more, have happier memories later.

Now, this is important.

This one's really important to me personally.