Dr. Robert Waldinger
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And about 40% is under our control.
We can move the needle by things we do and don't do.
Which could either sound like a lot or a little, but to me it sounds like a lot.
Well, it probably does have to do with your way of looking at things.
But it's also, I think that kind of inborn low mood would be something that's there all the time.
So in other words, I think of mood as kind of ups and downs.
Most of us have ups and downs of mood.
I think everybody does.
Sure, yeah.
But that some of us have started a different baseline, at a lower baseline, where when I'm down, I'm really down.
And then I go up, but I never get that happy.
And then I go back down really far.
Other people, it's the reverse.
They never get too far down, even on their worst days, right?
Yeah.
So again, it's both.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, one of the things that, that, you know, we can teach kids is about that.