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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Linda Geddes

Wallowing in a soup of despair? Try ‘lemonading’ to buck the gloom

Linda Geddes and her new stick friend
Linda Geddes and her new stick friend turning life’s lemons into lemonade. Photograph: Linda Geddes/The Guardian

If foreign politics, environmental collapse and the impending takeover of the world by machines are leaving you glum, psychologists have identified a strategy that could help bolster your resilience: “lemonading”.

Rather than wallowing in an acerbic soup of despair, researchers have discovered that people with high levels of playfulness may be better equipped to cope with the dud cards life throws at them.

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