This principle seemed very interesting to me. Achor describes this principle of the happiness advantage as the tetris effect, as when a person’s brain becomes trained to think in a specific way. However, some of the examples which Achor provided seemed a little bit unrealistic to me. People become accustomed to a specific way of thinking, however I do not believe that they would go as far as projecting Call of Duty into reality. Even though this seems to be a very unrealistic situation to me, I do believe with Achor’s point of how people do come to think in a specific way and see situations in a certain perspective and project that way of thinking with whatever comes in their way. Very frequently, people pay attention to the negative things that happen throughout their day, and brush off the good things which happen. I really like the method they provided to have a more positive outlook, with a gratitude list. Most of the time people focus on the things that are stressing them out, the things that went wrong throughout the day, etc. However, forcing yourself to go through the day and reflect upon what went right during the day, you may find that there were more instances that something positive happened than you had previously thought. A lot of the time, as we go throughout the day, our negative experiences and perspectives overshadow the positive and push it to the back of our minds. Sometimes I fall into this habit. When I come home from work, I tend to rant about a bad experience, and I forget about something that happened which was positive. Our brains have been trained to notice the problems, the bad and stressful things going on around us, and psh the positive things to the back of our minds. By thinking positively, the brain stays open to possibility and helps us toward being happy.
