Grumpy people think more clearly!

[summerdays]

According to a BBC article:

An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.

Basically I would agree that the things that grumpy people are good at, are things I'm not good at.

And the good news:

His earlier work shows the weather has a similar impact on us - wet, dreary days sharpened memory, while bright sunny spells make people forgetful.

So we should be ok for the next few months then.

 

[XmisterIS]

Bah! Humbug. Bloody Christmas!

 

[Noodley]

I could have bloody told you that!

 

[661-Pete]

It's not "Christmas", it's "Xmas". Get that straight, please. B)

 

[yello]

How do they know that it's not thinking clearly that makes you grumpy?

A load of old tosh I tell you.

 

[darkstar]

How do they know that it's not thinking clearly that makes you grumpy?

A load of old tosh I tell you.

Their saying that being grumpy makes you think clearly aren't they? not the other way round.

 

[jeltz]

It's not "Christmas", it's "Xmas". Get that straight, please. B)

You're both wrong its a totally inclusive "Winterval"

 

[yello]

Their saying that being grumpy makes you think clearly aren't they? not the other way round.

sheesh. Don't know why I bother. B)

 

[Jane Smart]

Oh go away, grumpy people don't think more clearly at all

Now where is the dog? I want to kick her

( just kidding BTW )

Grumpy people do think clearer, now bugger off and let me find my dog

 

[Archie_tect]

If I could get my head around all that I'd feel a lot better....

 

[Jane Smart]

Oh go away, grumpy people don't think more clearly at all

Now where is the dog? I want to kick her

( just kidding BTW )

Grumpy people do think clearer, now bugger off and let me find my dog

Disclaimer :-

No animals were hurt in the typing of the above message

 

[Speicher]

How do they know that it's not thinking clearly that makes you grumpy?

A load of old tosh I tell you.

Yello, I agree with you Yello. Thinking clearly about a situation and seeing the complications and craziness and rushing about in today's world, it is easy to get very grumpy/unhappy.

The people who do not take time to think, about their actions or the consequences of their actions, they are the jolly/"happy" ones, because they do not see the world as it really is.

People who rush to the next big* acquistion, thinking it will make them happy, while over-looking the greater goodwill that there should be, they are the "not Grumpy" ones.

* I exclude bike-related acquisitions here, I hasten to add. I am thinking of people with hundreds of thousands of pounds of bonuses, while others on this planet go hungry, or are homeless.

 

[yello]

That's it Speicher, in one.

 

[summerdays]

I don't think acquisitions do make people happy, if anything the reverse... those who don't worship possessions (not necessarily including myself in that group - I'm probably in the middle of the two extremes) generally are happier.

I was meaning that I wouldn't consider myself the best communicator, especially in the written form, and that I'm not a brilliant decision maker - I found it weird how those traits went with being more happy go lucky.

 

[darkstar]

sheesh. Don't know why I bother.

Woops didn't understand what you meant originally i must admit.