It’s a really simple idea. You just roll around conducting your life as you normally would, except you want to find yourself noticing things that are good. Just regular life stuff. And the smaller or more inconsequential the good thing is, the better.

And a whole section targeting me specifically:

Only, there’s already a problem here, isn’t there? This feels like exactly the sort of self-involved Pollyana crap that hard cases like me and you reflexively scoff at. Pssh.

We are the learned and cynical types who wisely resist the emotional influence of strangers and opportunists. We know that everything is terrible and that only simple people accept random advice about finding light in the world. Because smart people always find the best reasons for being very sad.