To Increase Your Happiness, Focus on Your ‘Near Misses’

Research suggests there’s power in reflecting on the what ifs

Ria Tagulinao
Forge
Published in
3 min readDec 9, 2020

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Person about to step and trip on a banana peel.
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The words that changed my outlook came from, of all places, a presentation on workplace safety at my new job. “Always report the near misses,” the facilitator said, as a slide showed a couple of boxes falling off a forklift and narrowly missing the man standing…

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Ria Tagulinao
Forge
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