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An important step to happiness is being able to identify what makes you happy and what makes you sad. We use our working memory to focus on familiar emotional information. This exercise will help train your working memory to evaluate emotional words, so that you can learn to focus the positive, rather than the negative.

1 Below is a list of words. Don’t look at it!

2 Ask a friend to read the list of words aloud.

3 Listen for repeating words. When you hear a repeated word that was read out three words before, do this:Snap your fingersTell your friend whether the word is emotionally positive, negative, or neutral.

The answers are in bold on the list.

Word List

  leaf

  unfortunate

  ecstatic

  sunny

  syrup

  ecstatic

  thankful

  syrup

  plank

  downer

  afraid

  friendly

  downer

  thankful