Ingrid Fetell Lee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And to me, the simplest thing is just starting this practice of joy spotting or noticing joy around you or trying to pay attention when it just comes over you.
catch yourself smiling, right?
Be the observer who catches yourself smiling or catches yourself laughing and notice what's happening in those circumstances.
And then you can start to work on creating more of those moments.
So I think it can be done in a very low pressure way, but I think it's a signal and it's nothing more than that.
And the last thing I'll say on this is just really remembering that
joy is in there and it is your natural state, there is a piece of you that still remembers it.
And it will feel very familiar when it starts to come back.
I'm really glad you asked this because it gets at the evolutionary purpose of joy.
So we often think of joy as just this nice thing that we have and doesn't really have a purpose.
And for many decades in psychology, that was sort of how it was treated because there really wasn't a ton of interest in positive emotions.
And so positive emotions were just kind of like this extra and everything was focused on the pathologies, right?
And on the
mental illness and how do we remedy mental illness?
And no one was really thinking about joy.
It was just a thing that was like this evolutionary nice to have.
And then when psychologists started to dig into it, they realized that nothing is universal in human nature without a purpose, right?
Nothing evolved in everyone.
And Darwin was the first to identify that emotions...
are evolved, that they actually are part of our DNA.
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