Societies Can Be Sunk By The Weight

In A Very Real Sense We Have Two Minds, One That Thinks And One That Feels

For The High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge Of Flow 40 Percent Of The Hours They Spent At It. But For Low Achievers, Studying Produced Flow Only 16 Percent Of The Time; More Often That Not, It Yielded Anxiety, With The Demands Outreaching Their Abilities...the Low Achievers Found Pleasure And Flow In Socializing, Not In Studying.

The Basic Premise That Children Must Learn About Emotions Is That All Feelings Are Okay To Have; However, Only Some Reactions Are Okay.

The More Socially Intelligent You Are, The Happier And More Robust And More Enjoyable Your Relationships Will Be.

Worries Typically Follow Such Lines, A Narrative To Oneself That Jumps From Concern To Concern And More Often Than Not Includes Catastrophizing, Imagining Some Terrible Tragedy. Worries Are Almost Always Expressed In The Mind's Ear, Not Its Eye - That Is, In Words, Not Images - A Fact That Has Significance For Controlling Worry.