Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft discuss the counter-intuitive happiness tip of acting how you want to feel. William James once wrote, "Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not." Plus, they dive deeper in to the abstainer/moderator distinction, a listener question about when to quit and when to push through an important challenge, and Liz's demerit and Gretchen's gold star.
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