Why you need bad days to appreciate your best ones

0:00If you can be in a bad mood for no reason, then you might as well be in a good mood for no reason, too. And so, one of the things that's been helpful for me is just actually recognizing the math of hard days. And so, if you think about you having 100 days, right? Let's just say that you you know, last 100 days of your life. Well, the top 10% of those days, you're going to have 10 days that are smiley face days. And then you might have, you know, kind of the middle 80, that's going to be kind of neutral days, right? And then you're going to have your bottom 10% days. Now, this is just normal because of the standard distribution of how days work. And so, when I think back on, you know, my days, sometimes I'm like, you know, what? Maybe today is just a bottom 10% day. And if I didn't have this bottom 10% day, then I wouldn't be able to recognize the difference between these days and the top 10% days. And so, in order for me to want to have top 10% days, I by definition must also have bottom 10% days.