check out “google’s former happiness guru developed a three-second brain exercise for finding joy” by lila maclellan for quartz. maclellan writes, “chade-meng tan, a former engineer, joined google in 2000 as employee number 107. though he played an instrumental role in building google’s mobile search function, among other technological feats, he’s better known for the mindfulness classes he later led for employees. the role earned him the job title of jolly good fellow (which nobody can deny), which he parlayed into a mindfulness institute geared toward corporate types.
in his latest book, joy on demand, the google veteran describes his path from someone who was “constantly miserable” to a much happier guy. how did he get there? sometime in his mid-20s, he discovered that he wasn’t stuck with self-loathing; temperament, he found, is malleable.
successfully reshaping your mindset, he argues, has less to do with hours of therapy and more to do with mental exercises, including one that helps you recognize ‘thin slices of joy.'”