A Course in Happiness by Mardi Horowitz M.D

Author:Mardi Horowitz M.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Teaching Points

• People vary in their capacity for intimacy. Some of this variation is due to endowment, some to life experiences. In general, early traumas may make it harder to develop deep and constant affiliations later in life, but mastery of stress and later good experiences can ameliorate fears that traumas will be repeated.

• Learning from new opportunities, which can be enhanced by taking time to be explicit about erroneous expectations, almost always helps to increase happiness by increasing one’s own capacity for intimacy.

• Learning from new opportunities is often called insight, which has three important characteristics:1. Understanding occurs more frequently the more you reflect upon how your own mind works: how you think, feel, and decide what to do next.

2. Insight is the monumental aha experience of understanding that can be positive and encouraging even if the memory that led you to it is unpleasant.

3. Insight is a body of knowledge that continually improves intimacy as you understand yourself and your intimate others more and more.

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