An antidotes to dissatisfaction
Everybody is familiar with the feeling that things are not as they should be. That you're not successful enough. Your relationships not satisfying enough. That you don't have the things you crave. A chronic dissatisfaction that makes you look outwards with envy and inwards with disappointment. Pop culture, advertising, and social media made this worse by reminding you that aiming for anything less than your dream job is a failure, you need to have great experiences constantly, be conventionally attractive, have a lot of friends, and find your soulmate, and that others have all of these things, and are truly happy. And of course, a vast array of self-improvement products implies that it's all your fault for not working hard enough on yourself. In the last two decades, researchers have been starting to investigate how we can counteract these impulses. The field of positive psychology emerged....