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Ugi's avatar

Excellent post, Chris. That's one of the core principles which enables effective transformational work. Especially if the therapist / coach has found his own way back to the experiential embodiment of it. Quite a rare thing though.

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Dr. Gena Gorlin's avatar

I would argue something very different: namely, that happiness is an achievement, and you don’t recognize it as such because you’ve already achieved it.

It’s your “default” because you’ve built yourself a life that’s default fulfilling for you. Do you really think that if you were no longer able to write or think about these sorts of ideas, or meet and bring together interesting people, or live in a city bustling with such activity and people, that you’d be default happy? I’m quite confident you wouldn’t be (until and unless you somehow managed to get these needs/values fulfilled some other way).

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