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But more importantly: “you seem mad. That suggests there is something you really want to DO that you are stopping yourself from doing, and getting frustrated that you don’t get to do it. Let’s figure out what it is & do it.”
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So this makes me think it’s a mistake to think of contentment as a mood. It’s more of a sustained posture that extends across long periods, so also across your normal arousal and positive/negative range. There are high/low arousal varieties of contentment.
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