I’m embarrassed to admit what an outsize negative effect such minor frustrations have had on my happiness over the years. Fairly often, they still do; but the effect was worst at the height of my productivity geekhood, because when you’re trying to Master Your Time, few things are more infuriating than a task or delay that’s foisted upon you... See more

A tweet about the power of your "default state"

This is genuinely great life advice disguised as a funny tweet.

If you can shift even 20% of your annoyances into amusement, your life will get substantially better.

I did my best to brainstorm a few ways to actually put this into practice.

Here's what I came up with:

Catch yourself in the first 2 seconds.... See more

I’m embarrassed to admit what an outsize negative effect such minor frustrations have had on my happiness over the years. Fairly often, they still do; but the effect was worst at the height of my productivity geekhood, because when you’re trying to Master Your Time, few things are more infuriating than a task or delay that’s foisted upon you... See more