Introducing Happiness by Will Buckingham

Author:Will Buckingham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: happiness, well-being, positivity
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2011-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Think of some activity in which you take part regularly – the contemporary equivalent of going to the bath house – and think of the times that you have found aspects of this activity unpleasant: the things that have made you irritable, or that have disturbed your mind. Now write down the following:

How much of what annoyed you was inherent in the nature of the situation? (For example, you may have been in the cinema, and people were chatting behind you. Or you may have been in a meeting, and people were using annoying jargon. But these things may simply­ be what happens in cinemas and at meetings.)

How much of what was happening was up to you (in Stoic terms) and how much was not up to you?

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