Arthur Brooks

That's the beautiful thing about being human, that even though I have a negativity bias, I can override it with my consciousness.

And that's what we're talking about here.

Savoring is rebelling against yourself.

And oh, how freeing that is, isn't it?

To stand up to your worst impulses.

It's an error because a negative disposition, it's maladaptive today because the negative disposition makes us error prone in our predictions.

You're always going to overpredict the worst.

You're going to assume the worst all the time.

And that's a heck of a way to live.

And it lowers our quality of life, to be sure, of course.

Lots of interesting work on this, by the way.

I'll put in a great article in the notes titled, The Brain is Adaptive, Not Triune, How the Brain Responds to Threat, Challenge, and Change.

And that's in Psychology, Therapy, and Psychomatics.

It's a nice article.

So savoring is the secret to greater happiness, but it doesn't come naturally.

How are you going to savor your life more?

And that's what I want to tell you now.

What are the techniques for actually savoring more?

What are the techniques for overriding your negativity bias, your tendency to rush into the future, to not pay attention, savor the ordinary moments of your life that you actually need?

And I'm going to give you three ways to do it.