Life Is Easier Than It Seems: A Guide to Analyzing Yourself and Others

The purpose of this book is simple: to bypass the boring and mostly useless stuff printed in psychology textbooks, and to side-step the opinion that psychologists are to be of little help so that you, the reader, can begin to see yourself and your problems differently. You won’t have to ask “is it working?” because the differences will be striking. You will soon find these analytic techniques creeping into your ordinary daily observations.

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Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Where You Begin

Chapter 2: What Makes You You

Chapter 3: Keys to Analyzing Your Behavior

Chapter 4: Passing Time

Chapter 5: Emotions, Simplified

Chapter 6: Why You Do What You Do

Chapter 7: Giving and Receiving Compliments

Chapter 8: There’s No Winning the Drama Game

Chapter 9: The Script You Follow

Chapter 10: Stop Torturing Yourself

Chapter 11: Personal Problems, and How to Solve Them

Chapter 12: Getting Well

Chapter 13: Taking Personal Inventory

Chapter 14: Life Is Easier than it Seems

Chapter 15: TA for Teaching and Learning

Conclusion: The Goal Is Integration

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Introduction (to LIFE IS EASIER THAN IT SEEMS)

INTRODUCTION The most frequent question I am asked as a psychology professor is about how to analyze the behavior of another person. The student explains how they are interested in creeping inside the consciousness of their older brother or ex-partner or best friend in order to see clearly the how and the why of that person’s behavior. Privately, I wonder if my students have a secret and possibly dark plan to manipulate their friends and loved ones. In the past, I have always refused to answer the how-to-analyze others question. But I would not refuse to answer with the grace and compassion of a parent who is refusing to treat their child to a second ice cream cone. I would refuse to answer like a bully who wanted to show off. I would give a long explanation about how terrible it is that some people , by whom I meant the student asking the question, liked to think of others in as inhumane and calculating a way as to try to analyze or manipulate them. But I’m all done ...

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