this emotional life

I watched the PBS Series, "This Emotional Life" today... almost six hours of it. Here are my notes:

Go toward the conflict

Need to be validated and understood

14 years since I was abandoned

Stuck in 1996

Reliance isn't rare

Adaptation is something the mind does when it knows there is nothing else it can
do. We adapt to misfortunes when we know we can't change them. But when we stand a fighting chance, we fight and that is why we struggle so much with temporary misfortune.

One way to change your life is to identify your weaknesses and fix them

Capitalize on your strengths

Identify your strengths and use them over and over again

You are what you do (how often are you kind; are you a leader). Track this. This is
Positive Psychology

At the end of each day write down what happened (good/bad) and 3 reasons why that happened

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