Caroline ’s Reviews > How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days > Status Update
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"...what's known as the Peak-End Rule in psychology suggests that people judge and remember experiences based on how they felt at the "peak," or most extreme and intense point, and at the end of the experience. So these extreme—and usually rare—instances can become our default memory of what winter is like, even when evidence suggests that's not usually the case." [CONT'D BELOW]
— Mar 11, 2026 09:21AM
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Caroline
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"Mindsets are true but biased: they zoom in on one slice of complicated phenomena. Similarly, our attention is selective: it's meant to filter. Attending to every light, sound, and physical sensation at all times would put you in sensory overload. We can't notice and observe everything, so our mental shortcuts—including our mindsets—help determine our focus. [...] One of the ways mindsets become [BELOW]
— Feb 25, 2026 10:11AM
Caroline
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Author is right that these days seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is unfortunately, like so many other psychological disorders, experiencing over self-diagnosis. Specific criteria characterize this disorder, and most people don't meet those: "Estimates vary, but research generally suggests that in the US, somewhere between 0.5 percent and 3 percent of people suffer from the disorder [...] The vast [BELOW]
— Feb 08, 2026 11:21AM
Caroline
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"While there were questionnaires that asked about seasonal depression, distress, and sleep disorder in winter, there were no surveys that made room for the potentially positive aspects of the season. This not only created problems for my study, it hinted at biases in the larger scientific framework for researching winter. If we can only study what we can measure, the fact that there were no existing [BELOW]
— Feb 02, 2026 11:45AM
*Our feelings about summer aren't based on its most unpleasant day even though (in many parts of the world) the bright light, heat, and humidity of summer are deeply unenjoyable and can be life-threatening.