Deceptively simple advice. Sounds easy, but if you’ve every tried to do something other than what you naturally do, you’ll understand how driven we all are by our knee-jerk stimulus-kick-back impulses.
The good thing is, it’s just your brain, and you can change it.
It turns out, as well as being deceptively simple advice but challenging to follow, it’s also deceptively simple to improve (but also challenging to continue).
If you’re curious, start with The How of Happiness. Cheesy title, perhaps, but it’s solid stuff.
If you’re not a reader, this wouldn’t be a bad time to start.
Maybe if we learnt to create a bit more space between the stimulus and our reaction, we could choose to respond instead.
And maybe, if some of us did that more often, there might be a little less pain in the world.