Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

The quotation frames well-being as partly a matter of attention and agency. “Inattention” suggests living on autopilot—missing cues about health, relationships, or emotions—so that dissatisfaction accumulates by default rather than by deliberate choice. Against that drift, the speaker emphasizes a capacity to “choose positive behaviors and responses,” shifting the focus from external circumstances to the internal stance one takes toward them. The final claim—“In that choice we change our every experience of life”—argues that experience is mediated by response: while events may be fixed, their felt meaning and consequences can be transformed through intentional habits, reframing, and constructive action.