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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 758. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Dis, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for support me in today. I want to talk about the neuroscience that proves optimism works. And in fact, I want to talk about the purpose of optimism because it's not just to think positive things and hope they eventually come true. There's a certain presence about being an optimistic person that literally helps you not only change what happens to you, but also helps you enjoy life while you're living it.

There's a study from researchers in Amsterdam where they basically follow people through

like the entire,

they call it narrative arc of going on a vacation that is planning a vacation,

departing the trip, the vacation itself, then they return home.

And as you and I would probably both assume, the researchers expected to find the peak

happiness of those people was somewhere in the middle, where they're

on the trip and they're sipping margaritas and their feeder in the sand and there's not a worry

in sight. But the data from the researchers told a different story. People were categorically

happiest before the vacation began. Before, not during, as you'd expect.

It wasn't the beaches, the perfect weather, or just in general time away from

responsibility that piqued someone's happiness.

It was the weeks leading up to it.

The imagining, the possibility, the feeling of knowing something enjoyable was in the future.

The anticipation.

That was what created a lift in their mood.

It was a stronger lift than the joy of the event itself.

And to me, this is really interesting.

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