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# Happiness is partly an attentional achievement....
> Happiness is partly an attentional achievement. The mind strengthens the patterns it repeatedly detects, so a person trained only on offense and deficiency becomes highly skilled at finding a world that confirms the training.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Happiness, Nonjudgment, and the Royal Practice of Letting People Be - Workbook|Happiness, Nonjudgment, and the Royal Practice of Letting People Be]]
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“Happiness is partly an attentional achievement. The mind strengthens the patterns it repeatedly detects, so a person trained only on offense and deficiency becomes highly skilled at finding a world that confirms the training.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-happiness-partly-attentional-world-confirms-training
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