3 Strategies That Help Me Embrace Discomfort and Lean into Joy

How I stopped avoiding good habits and embraced my life

Charlene Wang
4 min readJan 3, 2024

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Chasing happiness can be like chasing a mirage. You think you’re about to grasp it, but then happiness changes its shape. Cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman explained this dichotomy with two selves: the experiencing self and the remembering self. The experiencing…

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Charlene Wang

Founder, Distillable; Ex-Google Product Manager, Health AI