Four Practices for Happiness at Work and Play
5 min readJan 9, 2020
Some people are born optimists, the rest of us have to work at it.
When I was 22 and waiting for a friend in a local bar, an acquaintance shattered my ego and I’ve been the better for it ever since. His words, and my reaction to them, invited me on a journey of self-observation where I discovered I could abandon negative thought patterns and embrace new, joyful ones.