The Positive Psychology Podcast - Bringing the Science of Happiness to your Earbuds with Kristen Truempy

066 - Comfort & Convenience - The Positive Psychology Podcast

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Comfort and convenience
  • We seek comfort through convenience.
  • The time that convenience was designed to create for more important things is often taken up by more convenience
  • Convenience is a never ending task.
  • Our tolerance for discomfort steadily decreases which in turn is related to a lowering of our psychological well-being
  • A way out is to allow more risk and failure back into our lives
    • Consumerism
    • The number of ads outnumbers probably all other messages we get every day
    • Without thinking about our relationship with consumerism it controls us
    • Rethinking consumerism is not about saying goodbye to fun and joy
    • It's about aligning what's important to us with how we spend our energy and resources
    • This creates room for the great stuff
      • Antidotes
      • gratitude
      • savouring
      • mindfulness
      • thinking about values and what you do and don't do
      • creation

        • Resources mentioned:

        The Upside of your Dark Side by Todd Kashdan & Robert Biswas-Diener

        Related episodes:

        • Positive Money
        • Savouring

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