Arthur Brooks

I recommend that you choose all three, but I do recommend that you think once again, as I'm emphasizing here, that one of these things is harder for you and that's what you should actually work on.

If you have a hard time being here now, then present savoring is important.

If you have a hard time in the past, you need to edit your memories.

That's me.

If you have a hard time actually getting out of the future, right?

Or if you have a hard time actually not being in the future because you have so much dread, then that's what you need to is to find something you look forward to.

What do you need to do?

What's your challenge?

What's the time zone in which you need to savor?

Go do that.

That's number one.

Number two is to expand your repertoire of savoring techniques.

This is great stuff from 2010, where psychologists found four savoring techniques that were really, really effective.

So here's your savoring chops.

Here's how we're going to put it together.

Number one is what they call behavioral display, which means expressing positive emotion with nonverbal behaviors.

Here's the deal.

Smile, even if you don't feel it.

I think I've mentioned it on the show before, the Duchenne smile, which is the only smile that's actually associated with true human happiness.

It involves two sets of muscles in the face, the zygomaticus major and the orbicularis oculi muscles.