February 05, 2010

SECRET TO HAPPINESS? THINK OF 12 REASONS TO BE MISERABLE

Something useful from the Boston Globe:

Students asked to come up with a longer list of reasons they would fail reported feeling more confident than those asked for a shorter list. Indeed, they reported feeling as confident as the students who had been asked to come up with the short list of ways to succeed - by the authors’ calculation, thinking of 12 ways to fail had the same effect as thinking of three ways to succeed.

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