The broaden and build theory shows that when people experience positive emotion they produce more and are more creative, which means experiencing positive well-being enables greater production.

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Gloria Mark

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there's a psychological theory it's called the broaden and build theory that showed that when people experience positive emotion they actually produced more they were more creative and so the upshot is that when we experience positive well-being we can produce more

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Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out? Listen to This.The Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:08 PM

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