Go to the bookstore or library today and find at least one book on a positive topic that will give you a boost.
High (but not low) worriers showed more evidence of restricted working memory capacity during worry than when thinking about a positive topic.
In a direct study of the latter possibility (Hayes et al., 2008) groups reporting high or low levels of worry were asked to worry, or think about a positive topic, while performing a random key-press task.
While worrying about their main worry topic, habitually high worriers responded less randomly in the key-press task (indicating less attentional control allocated to this task) than when thinking about their positive topic.
Another positive topic, as reported by Huscher et al., is that there is an absence of a steady increase in drug costs, since it is estimated that, after 7 years, a plateau in the curve of costs is reached by biologics [ 30].
As the candle burns through each letter, choose a positive topic to think about.
