Do You Have A Missing Tile?

In his book, Happiness Is A Serious Problem, Dennis Prager talks about the Missing Tile Syndrome.

According to Prager, many of us suffer from this syndrome and are very effective at sabotaging our happiness. Whenever we look at something or someone in our lives, we fixate on the smallest of flaws and ignore everything else. In the book, Prager mentions a conversation he had with a bald man who was very sensitive about his hair loss. Whenever he entered a room, all he saw was hair--other people's hair.

Prager advises us to identify the missing tile in our lives and then follow one of these steps:

• Get it.

• Replace it with a different tile.

• Forget about it and focus on the tiles in your life that are not missing.