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Their wordsA useful aspect of the power of pre-suasion is that we can use it on ourselves, to achieve our personal goals.
Their wordsThis kind of search for and recognition of the many small joys in our lives—that will differ from day to day—makes the process more interesting (and fun, actually), which makes us more likely to stick with it.
Their wordsThe second solution requires us to overcome a standard human bias—the tendency to pay greater attention to the presence of consequential things in our lives than to the absence of such things. In many situations, this is a mistake, as the lack of something can be tellingly important.
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