Hack #57. Mental and emotional clarity reinforce each other, so don?t ignore your… This hack explores the ABC model of emotion pioneered by

226 | Chapter 7, Clarity #57 Learn Your Emotional ABCs HACK H A C K #57 Learn Your Emotional ABCs Hack #57 Mental and emotional clarity reinforce each other, so don’t ignore your emotio in your quest to be a better thinker. Greater clarity is just a few steps away. The ABC model of emotion, widespread in contemporary psychotherapy, holds that it is not an activating (A) event, such as rejection by a friend or lover, that causes you emotional coequences (C) such as depression; rather, the linchpin is your invisible beliefs (B) about the event that come in between A and C. Fortunately, it’s often easier to intentionally change beliefs than emotio. Since at least the time of the ancient Stoics, some have believed that our cir- cumstances don’t control whether we’re happy, but our thoughts about them do. Our reasoned thoughts and beliefs form a kind of buffer between reality and our private selves—in theory. In practice, our thoughts often don’t buffer us from events we don’t like so


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