When Everything Sucks, Rehearse Your Joy
Like a muscle, your ability to feel pleasure can deteriorate if you don’t use it
Published in
3 min readMar 2, 2021
I keep a running mental list of things that make me belly laugh: videos of my kids when they were babies; old episodes of Impractical Jokers; a spontaneous FaceTime call with my best friend from college. When I catch myself slipping into doom and gloom, I pick…