1. "Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
2. "Self-improvement is important, but it needs to be conducive to your happiness. If an ambition will not make you or those you care about any happier, then there really is no point in striving to be someone else. You should carefully consider your reasons for the ideal self you construct and then select goals and ambitions that are sensible and conducive to your happiness."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
3. "trying to force yourself to be different never really works."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
4. "as a rule, we are all happier when we give activities, like talking to friends, our full attention."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
5. "There are so many stimuli vying for your attention—sounds, places, people, smells, and your own thoughts rattling around in your head. You only have so much attentional energy and it will make you happier, more efficient, and healthier if you are able to focus it properly."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
6. "Producing happiness involves deciding, designing, and doing, and"
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
7. "Being too hard on ourselves, and not accepting the fact that we procrastinate, just leads to more procrastination and makes it harder to change. Students"
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
8. "Change what you do, not how you think. You are what you do, your happiness is what you attend to, and you should attend to what makes you and those whom you care about happy."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
9. "future happiness cannot compensate for current misery; lost happiness is lost forever. Powered"
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
10. "cognitive dissonance."
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Paul Dolan, Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life