If given the option of being miserable or happy, of course most people would answer, happy. It involves loving yourself, feeling good about your decisions, and owning responsibility for your own emotions. Yet in today's society, happiness always tends to get put aside, she believes. We like to be mourners and martyrs. Then straightening up she adds, it's a proven scientific fact, optimists live longer.
Pessimists are accurate, but they die sooner.
We are all going to suffer. To combat this, LaRoche often has her audiences put on wide toothy grins and chuckle and guffaw for a full 30 seconds. Research has shown that how you look and arrange your features can make you feel a certain way. Pretending to feel a certain way can get you there. However, within the first few seconds, there are always some people in the audience who begin to check their watches.