To help launch John Cacioppo and my new textbook “Discovering Psychology: the Science of Mind”, I will be ‘tweeting’ and ‘re-tweeting’ blogs and news articles that I hope you find helpful. Psychology has much to offer our world and to each of us… if nothing more than helping us in ‘the pursuit of happiness.’
Thought for today: I am reminded in “Talks to Teachers”, Professor William James advises (1899):
“Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look around cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can….to wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention to it, and keeps it still fastened in the mind: whereas, if we act as if from some better feeling, the old bad feeling soon folds its tent… and silently steals away.”
