Arthur Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And so I start again.
And that's how I try to live.
I promised you I was going to talk about savoring bad things too.
The research focuses entirely on savoring pleasant events and experiences.
But there are difficult parts of your life, and if you savor them correctly, these can be unbelievably enriching as well.
And here's how I recommend you do that.
Here's how you savor the bad.
I've mentioned this briefly, but I want to bring it up again in the show.
I keep a failure journal.
Look, everybody has a lot of failure in their life, disappointment in their life.
Lots of things are happening you don't like.
When something bothers me, I write it down.
Now, sometimes I keep it electronically and sometimes I keep it in pencil and paper.
It's actually better in pencil and paper.
You're more likely to remember it.
But I leave two blank lines under each entry.
And I come back to the first one after a month.
I go back and I read the thing that bothered me.