Doctor Mike
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's like, I'm going to sit here because my back hurts forever and my back gets weaker.
The same thing is true with your emotions.
Well, it's also five minutes versus five years.
And which is short-term versus long-term.
And there's all kinds of things like that.
The fallacy of composition that we commit constantly.
That's number one is your feelings are liars.
Your feelings, they should be under your managerial control as opposed to managing you.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
And again, I fall prey to this a lot.
You're human.
I teach this and I'm 61 and I still like, I'm grumpy with my wife.
And she's like, do you read your books?
That's great.
Well, part of it is I recognize the truth.
I study happiness because happiness is hard for me, not because it's easy for me.
If it were easy for me, I wouldn't write about it.
My wife is like a 9.5 on a 0 to 10 Cantrell ladder of well-being.
I'm like 3.5.