avoid a Happy Death Spiral by: Splitting the Great Idea into parts; Treating every additional detail as burdensome; Thinking about the specifics of the causal chain instead of the good or bad feelings; Not rehearsing evidence; and Not adding happiness from claims that “you can’t prove are wrong”; but not by: Refusing to admire anything too much; Conducting a biased search for negative points until you feel unhappy again; or Forcibly shoving an idea into a safe box.
