The document outlines 7 steps to rethink your beliefs and mindset in order to fast forward to happiness. It discusses different views on what happiness is from philosophers like Aristotle and Oprah to academics who have studied happiness. The author's view is that happiness involves PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment) plus the ability to be flexible and resilient when facing circumstances through "The Rethink". The 7 steps of the rethink process involve diagnosing what's not working, managing energy, getting unstuck, remodeling beliefs, framing the future positively, and building prosperity practices.
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The Art + Science of the Rethink: 7 Steps to Expanding Possibility and Success at the Pursuit of Happiness
1. The Art + Science of the Rethink:
7 Steps to
Expand Your Possibilities +
Succeed at Your Pursuit of Happiness
Tara-Nicholle Nelson, M.A., Esq.
6. Being rich doesnt make you happy.
Finding the one doesnt make you happy.
Being normal like everyone else doesnt
make you happy:
54% of US adults are "moderately mentally
healthy yet not flourishing
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7. How can we fast forward to happy?
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8. How to fast forward to happy:
Move past perfect.
Stop fighting what is respect whats real
right now.
Lean into the fear, anxiety and grief of painful
circumstances.
Rethink failure as fodder.
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10. The Philosophers
Aristotle: Happiness = Virtuous Activity
eudemonia
eu = well; daimon = divinity, spirit
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11. The Philosophers
Oprah: Happiness = living your best life now
The Power of Evolution + Intuition
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12. The Self-Experimenters
Benjamin Franklin: 13 Virtues
Henry David Thoreau: Walden Pond
Liz Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
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13. The Academics
Sonya Lubomirsky, Ph.D.: Happiness = Formula
50% genetic
10% life circumstances
+ 40% intentional activities
Your Happiness
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14. The Academics
Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi: Happiness = Flow
. . .being completely involved in an activity for
its own sake.. . . Your whole being is involved,
and youre using your skills to the utmost.
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15. The Academics
Martin Seligman, Ph.D.: Happiness = Flow ++++
P positive emotion
E engagement {flow}
R positive relationships
M meaning
A accomplishment
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16. Tara on Happiness
Seligman left something out
Circumstances cant make us happy, but can
make us very unhappy
Happiness = PERMA + The Rethink
Flexibility around circumstances
Resilience
Ability to reinvent, transform on desire or on
demand
Mindset management
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17. The Art + Science
of the Rethink
7 Steps
Belief . Language . Action
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18. Why do we need The Rethink?
Eckhart Tolle 3 Options: Leave, Change
or Accept situations anything else is
suffering.
We want to, but cant or dont make
situational or mindset changes we want.
Rethink is the mise en place that
optimizes our ability to make these
changes.
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19. Step One:
Diagnostics
Identifying whats not working.
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20. Step Two:
Stabilization
Managing chaos and energy
Certainty anchors
Capture + complete
Decathexis
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21. Step Three:
Getting Unstuck +
Urgent
Momentum building
Cultivating traits of the unstuck
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22. Steps Four + Five:
Belief Remodeling
Unlearning
Creating new belief systems
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23. If I feel myself to be wronged, a loser or a
victim, I will tell myself that some assumption
I have made is the source of my difficulty.
Benjamin Zander
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24. Step Six:
Future Framing
Generative Language
Speech Acts
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25. Step Seven:
Prosperity
Practices
Practice makes perfect permanent.
Skill-building
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