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Frank Bruni: Count our blessings; avoid tallying the slights

Getty Images The happiness we feel about our money, work, relationships and life in general isn’t derived by only what happens, but also how we perceive what happens. A famous saying often attributed (rightly or wrongly) to Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius goes like this: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” What he seems to be articulating is a cognitive bias named more than 1,500 years later as the “fram...