Many of us spend a lot of our lives feeling mildly dissatisfied. The day we go to the beach is windy, our delivery app shopper picks out bruised apples, or we feel like we got a good deal on a contract until we find out someone else got a better one.

We can balance out dissatisfying experiences by learning to better tune ourselves to moments of satisfaction when these occur.

We all intuitively know what satisfaction feels like. The feeling can be sensory, like popping something. Or, it can come from completing or resolving something (e.g., getting the last smear of jam out of the jar), from having exactly the right amount, from good timing or serendipity, from feeling validated or clever, or........

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