Use Memory to Improve Your Mood | Dr. Charan Ranganath

Let me just recall three things that happened to me that are specific events, episodic memories that can be as trivial as I want, but they're things that gave me some happiness. I got an email from a friend. I saw a story from someone on Facebook that was a friend of mine and something good happened to them or something. Anything, right? Like I found a shirt on sale. My coffee was better than usual, whatever it is, right? And I found that when I started to do this, initially it would be hard. I would go, I'd be tired, I'm in a bad mood, I just had a bad day at work, whatever. And it would be really hard and I just had to get into that mindset. But once I pulled up something tiny, it made it easier to pull up something else. And then next thing you know, I'm like realizing, boy, something, I really had a great week.