Brad Stulberg

It's okay to be sad.

It's okay to be sad.

Then it takes the edge off the sadness.

Then it takes the edge off the sadness.

And when you experience happiness, you're not scared to be happy.

And when you experience happiness, you're not scared to be happy.

You can fully experience happiness.

You can fully experience happiness.

So it's this ability to be flexible within the course of a year, a week, a day, even within the course of an hour, to be able to have a wave of sadness, let it course through you, feel it, and then be really happy.

So it's this ability to be flexible within the course of a year, a week, a day, even within the course of an hour, to be able to have a wave of sadness, let it course through you, feel it, and then be really happy.

There's this story that I came across that didn't make it into the book when researching about the Dalai Lama.

There's this story that I came across that didn't make it into the book when researching about the Dalai Lama.

And just I think that this exemplifies emotional flexibility is genocide came up in a conversation with him and he just started weeping.

And just I think that this exemplifies emotional flexibility is genocide came up in a conversation with him and he just started weeping.

just weeping, like crying full force tears of sadness and sorrow.

just weeping, like crying full force tears of sadness and sorrow.

And then they were brought cookies by his attendant.

And then they were brought cookies by his attendant.

And he took a bite of a chocolate chip cookie and the biggest smile came on his face.

And he took a bite of a chocolate chip cookie and the biggest smile came on his face.