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Perfectionism, pets, and Kant? This oddly simple happiness list got our attention.

A surprisingly grounded reset for anyone whose brain has been doing too much.

Some days, “choose happiness” sounds less like advice and more like a threat. But in this story, Amy Lamare pulls together a refreshingly low-drama list of habits that make the idea feel a little more doable.

The hook is not toxic positivity. It is smaller, smarter stuff: give yourself some grace, stop worshipping perfection, and pay attention to what actually makes your days better or worse. Also, points for the unexpected cameo from Immanuel Kant, who somehow still has thoughts on your mental state.

Could a few slight mindset shifts really make a dent when life feels heavy, messy, or both? It Kant hurt! (sorry) 

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Everything you think you know about spotting a liar is probably wrong

The three body language "tells" almost everyone believes in have almost no science behind them.

You've seen it in every crime show and read it in every pop-psychology listicle: liars avoid eye contact, their faces betray them with micro-expressions, and they fidget like they're sitting on a secret. The problem is that none of it holds up under scrutiny. As Erik Barnes reports, researchers and body language professionals have systematically dismantled the three biggest myths about how to spot deception, and the real answer is both simpler and less cinematic than you'd hope.

Take the eye contact myth. People look away for all sorts of reasons: they're pulling up a memory, they're nervous, or they belong to a culture where sustained eye contact reads as aggressive, not honest. Neurodivergent people may struggle with eye contact whether they're telling the truth or the biggest whopper of their lives. And facial expressions? Scientists can't even agree on how many we have. One book says 20,000; another claims 250,000; the most recent peer-reviewed research landed on 21. If the experts can't count them, good luck reading them across a dinner table.

Then there's the catch-all category: posture, fidgeting, sweating, nose-touching. Former FBI interrogator Joe Navarro spent 25 years and more than 10,000 interviews learning that not one of those behaviors reliably indicates deception. People scratch because they itch. They sweat because they're nervous about being interrogated. The tells we've been trained to watch for are really just signs of being a human in a stressful moment. So what actually catches a liar? According to 72% of deception experts, it's not how someone looks when they talk. It's what they actually say.

And what did we learn?

Before the three-day weekend, we shared a story about why Americans are so quick to trust someone with a British accent.

Which American accent do GOOD readers think would have the best luck talking its owner out of a ticket? Bless your little ol’ hearts, New York and California, you barely got on the board. In a tightly contested and popular race, the Southern accent took the win.

• A buttery Southern "now darlin', let's not do this" (44.6%)

• A fast-talking New York "c'mon, officer" (3.6%)

• A sunny California "it's all good, man" (10.4%)

• A deadpan Midwest "ope, my bad" (41.4%)

The comments had some fun write-ins. One suggested a Boston accent, but I can’t put the imagined exchange in the newsletter, we try to keep things PG!

On May 26, 1896, Charles Dow published a little number in The Wall Street Journal that would go on to move markets, elections, and ruin dinner conversations for the next 130 years: the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It debuted at 40.94 points. Today it trades above 50,000.

Dow was not exactly Wall Street material. He grew up on a Connecticut farm, lost his father at six, never finished high school, and spent his teens working the land with his mother. But he wanted to be a reporter, and at 21, he talked his way into a newspaper job. A decade later, he and fellow journalist Edward Jones launched Dow Jones & Company out of the basement of a candy store near the New York Stock Exchange, delivering handwritten news bulletins to traders on foot.

The Industrial Average was beautifully simple: take 12 major companies, add up their stock prices, divide by 12, and publish the result. Before Dow, financial information was fragmented and easily manipulated by insiders. His number gave ordinary people, for the first time, a way to see what Wall Street was actually doing. For better or worse, "the Dow" now has enormous sway over how Americans feel about the economy on any given morning. And if you'd dropped $100 into those original 12 stocks on day one, the price growth alone would make it worth over $100,000 today, roughly 25 times what inflation would account for.

Not bad for a farm kid with no diploma and a basement office next to the gumdrops.

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