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10. Mindfulness I

I remember hearing several years ago that people were getting burnt out on the overuse of the word "mindfulness", which is super unfortunate. I hope it doesn't have too many negative associations for you, because it's a super practical skill!

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09. Emotion Demotion

Early college Kevin kinda sucked. Maybe you can learn from my mistakes!

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08. Strategy

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07. Ups and Downs

I want to be clear that this happiness graph is mostly a tool for me to communicate some ideas to you; it is not a tool to actually measure your success or happiness, and especially not a way to measure yourself against others. We’re all on our own journey, going at our own pace.

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06. The Area Underneath

Some people might say my life is boring. I don’t drink often, I don’t party hard, I go to bed at 10pm... but I'm hopeful that my methods of optimizing happiness could apply to other, more “exciting” lifestyles as well. And also... hey, my life isn’t boring! Shut up.

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05. The Happiness Graph

Happiness can’t be measured, in part because it can’t be quantified objectively. This might seem unfortunate, but in a world where we obsess over “success” relative to our peers, maybe it’s a good thing that we don’t have another metric with which to compete with others. Next week we’ll get into what VERY limited things this graph might be useful for.

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04. A Shared Goal

If you don’t think it’s okay to acknowledge that your own happiness motivates a lot of your actions, I hope you’ll reconsider. I’ll get into this later in the series, but it doesn’t have to mean acting in a way that is traditionally considered “selfish.” Be kind to others, support your communities... but don’t ignore your own needs.

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03. ALL MODELS ARE WRONG

Hope you’re enjoying the series! Don’t forget to subscribe if you want to stay up to date!

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02. THE ENGINEER

Yes, I am an engineer. Yes, I’m bad at inspiring emotion (unfortunate, since that would be a useful skill when making a long-form comic). For a long time I also fit the stereotype that I didn’t understand or express emotion well, but I’ve made great strides in that department. My hope is that with this comic I can help a few others navigate that transition, and be entertaining along the way why not.

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01. INTRODUCTION

Hi! Thanks for reading episode one of An Engineer’s Guide to Happiness. I really hope this series ends up being helpful for a few people, even if to a lot of others I just look like a pretentious jerk. I don’t think I have it all figured out, but I don’t want to wait until I do to start talking about what I’ve learned.

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