Happiness Is A Skill by Brooke Siem

Happiness Is A Skill by Brooke Siem

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121. Seven Years of Factual Optimism

121. Seven Years of Factual Optimism

What the 51% Theory taught me about living well

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Mar 19, 2024
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Seven years ago, on March 8, 2017, I published a post on Medium entitled, “Finding Happiness Through Factual Optimism (Even When Life Goes Sideways.)”

The essay, even with its amateur prose that now makes me cringe, explained the system I created for myself to objectively track my progress when I was healing from antidepressant withdrawal and fifteen yea…

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