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Letter: Advice from a Pollyanna on keeping up spirits

Published 16 March 2022

From Bonita Ely, Sydney, Australia

Following up on David Robson’s article “The pursuit of happiness”, as a Pollyanna with a relentlessly sunny disposition, I am never lonely or depressed (22 January, p 38).

I offer the following lessons to add to Laurie Santos’s free online course that Robson mentions: enjoy your own company; use your imagination, be creative, be a maker; enjoy the creativity of others – writing, music, films, art, plays and so on.

Issue no. 3378 published 19 March 2022

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