THE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom By Don Miguel Ruiz Introduction P. 4 “It was not your choice to speak English. You didn’t choose your religion or your moral values—they were already there before you were born.” P. 6 “We train our children, whom we love so much, the same way that we train any domesticated animal.” P. 7 “The rewards feels good, and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward.” P. 12 “The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every...
Read MoreQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
QUIET The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking By Susan Cain Introduction: The North and South of Temperament P.3 “Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts-which means that we’ve lost sight of who we really are”. P.4 “If you’re not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one”. P.4 “Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world,...
Read MoreChristmas 2015
Christmas 2015 For past readers of my annual holiday note, this year’s letter will be different from all those of the past. No travelogue; no ‘I went here and I went there, bla bla, bla’. I’ve taught a Washington University course on introspection and reflection for the past 17 years and I thought I would share a rough transcription of the last ten minutes of this class. Apologies that it’s a little long. “We began this course with Viktor Frankl and his life in a concentration camp, from his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. I would like to end the course on a personal...
Read MorePositive Psychology
Syllabus Seminar in Positive Psychology Psych. 367 Spring 2008 Randy Larsen Glenn Detrick Room 206 Psychology Bldg. Whispers Lounge rlarsen@artsci.wustl.edu Glenn@webebi.com Office Hours: Wed. 3-4:00, & by appt. Tu/Th 2:00-2:30, & by appt. Format of Course: This course will be conducted as a seminar. We will avoid lecturing and will instead encourage discussion. After the first full week in most weeks we will fall into a routine where the Tuesday class is devoted to discussing the readings and the Thursday class is devoted to discussing the exercise and the papers you wrote. This...
Read MoreSelf Discovery/Life Skills
Self Discovery/Life Skills Winter Term 2006 GST 337 Retrospective Background This class met three hours a day (1:30 – 4:30 pm) from January 3 – 24 (14 class sessions plus a final exam period) with 26 juniors and seniors at Elon University in North Carolina. The course syllabus, student data sheet (collected and discussed in individual meetings with each student prior to the second class meeting) and final examination are attached for reference. The course was conceived and offered by Glenn Detrick who, with thirty years of experience in higher education, felt that universities did...
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