Mood Triggers

I think, so here's a really mundane one.

Traffic.

Traffic can trigger a bad mood.

And there's a difference between driving on the weekend and driving during the week.

During the week it tends to be more commuters and they kind of get it.

And on the weekend people are kind of like, oh my God, look, I'm behind the wheel of a car.

And that can trigger a bad mood, an unnecessary bad mood.

Yes.

Do you know what I'm saying?

100%.

So I think the way to start with that is when you get into your car, you just have to accept the fact that there's going to be traffic.

And you're probably in a reasonably nice car.

Even if you're not, you probably have a reasonably nice stereo system.

And just understand that it's more time to listen to the music.

Funny enough, when I moved to Northern California from Los Angeles, I was in far less traffic.

than I was when I was living in LA.

And I found that I had to find different opportunities to daydream for work.

Because in LA, when I was sitting in traffic, you get the music on, you know you're in traffic, you just kind of get into that rhythm.

And I had plenty of time to sort of daydream in my head about things I was writing or creating or something like that.

And then when I get to Northern California, I found that because I was traveling places more quickly and more efficiently in shorter distances that that daydreaming space had gone and I had to sort of like provide it for myself.

Isn't that interesting?

Yeah, that's really interesting.

So how about you? What triggers you?