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“The path upward and the path downward are usually part of the same mental terrain,” said Paterson. “So if you can isolate the things that you do that would make you feel worse — like continuing a be…
…happy life, identify and eliminate everything that makes you miserable or enhance your unhappiness. Focus on optimising misery. Those behaviours are what stand in the way of your happiness.
“Once you begin recognizing the behaviours you’re doing that make you unhappy, then you can begin shifting them bit by bit. The challenge is to let go of the idea that you’re going to change your entire life all at once,” writes Marchese.