The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

by Oliver Burkeman

Bad moods are permitted.

Few days now go by without some occasion on which I’ll deploy what I have come to think of as the ‘Stoic pause’ – which is all that it takes to remember that it’s my judgment about the infuriating colleague, or the heavy traffic, or the burned food, that is the cause of my distress, not the situation itself.