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Index
Cover Page
PRAISE FOR WHY SMART PEOPLE HURT
OTHER BOOKS BY ERIC MAISEL
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE CHALLENGES OF SMART
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
1: SMARTNESS DISPARAGED
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
2: SMART WORK AS OXYMORON
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
3: ORIGINAL, FORMED, AND AVAILABLE PERSONALITIES
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
4: OUR EXPERIMENTAL MODEL
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
5: THE LOGIC OF MANIA
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
6: FEATURES OF A RACING BRAIN
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
7: THE SMART GAP
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
8: THINKING ANXIETY
We Flee the Encounter
We Use Dangerous Canalizing Tactics
We Think Small
We Think Safe
We Fantasize
We Overprepare Ourselves
We Try to Circumvent the Process
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
9: THE LURE OF LANGUAGE AND LOGIC
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
10: THE LURE OF MYSTICISM
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
11: A FIRM BUT NOT PROUD CONVICTION
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
12: UNREASONABLE SELF-PESTERING
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
13: THE PAIN OF APPRAISING
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
14: THE GOD-BUG SYNDROME
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
15: COMING TO GRIPS WITH MEANING
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
16: MAKING DAILY MEANING
Orient Yourself
Maintain One Main Morning Practice
Take Direct Aim at Your Greatest Meaning Challenge
Make Meaning in Context
Look Ahead
Define Free Time
Allow Easiness
Invest in Being
Think Thoughts that Serve You
Behave in Ways that Serve You
Make Daily Use of Your Available Personality
Check in on Meaning Opportunities
Stop Up Meaning Leaks
Deal with Special Circumstances
Practice
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
17: EMBRACING SHIFTING MEANINGS
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
18: EXERCISING YOUR BRAIN
Paradigm Shift
Value-Based Meaning-Making
What Are Your Life Purposes, Values, and Principles?
Maintaining Your Life Purpose Vision
Psychological Subjectivity
Defensiveness
Habits of Mind
Your Idea of Meaning
The Primacy of Available Personality
Investing Meaning
Meaning Opportunities
Boring or Difficult Work
Meaning Neutral
Choosing Meaning over Mood
Repairing Meaning
Appropriate Distress
Dealing with the Facts of Existence
Applying Natural Psychology Principles and Practices to Smart Challenges
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
19: A BLUEPRINT FOR SMART
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TO OUR READERS
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