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Is This The Best Skill You Can Develop?
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- Most people don't question someone who's in a bad mood.
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Abschnitt 1 The single greatest skill that you can develop is being in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.
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0:00The single greatest skill that you can develop is being in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about. Most people don't question someone who's in a bad mood. Well, if you can be in a bad mood for no reason, you might as well be in a good mood for no reason cuz that one at least serves you. Cuz on one degree, there's like, let's count things to be grateful for. On the other side, it's like, why do I have to have things to be grateful for in order to be in a good mood? Can I not find things and still choose to be in a good mood? Because I've certainly not had things to be in a bad mood about and been a bad mood. And so, I've been trying to flex that, which is like, sure, we can find things to be grateful for and those things pop up, it's a practice, you get better at it. But like, what if I could just be in a good mood? And so, I've just tried to break that relationship between the two because then it makes it contingent on something that I can find.