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If you're in a bad mood, you can be in a good mood in 12 minutes, and here's how.

According to these experts at Iowa State University, don't do a spa day. Don't go shopping. Don't take a relaxing trip. That's not it. Okay. Do something for 12 minutes. And that 12 minutes is, it says be kind to people. And that'll put you in a better mood. Absolutely. The professor says just walking around and figuring out kind things to do for others will

reduce anxiety and increase happiness. This is not surprising, honestly. But what's wild

is that our culture is so into the same answers over time. Like, you need to do something for

yourself. But it doesn't make you feel better yeah it just

doesn't work and then there's there's all of this data behind if you can get your mind off yourself

if you can think about somebody else you can deny yourself and go I'm going to think about somebody else

you'll actually be a more well-adjusted person. And it's over and over and over we learn this.

But for some reason,

every default answer our culture has

is designed to make you not feel good by yourself.

Isn't that weird?

Like over and over and over.

And we keep seeing this thing

where you really actually flourish when you become about other people.

So wild how we can act ourselves in a feeling a certain way.

It's true.

I mean, they've proven that with the scientific experiments.

But if you act a certain way, your emotions tend to follow that.

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