Educational

textbookI loved the textbook for my Marital Life Cycle class. Many times I found myself saying "Wow" in the course of my reading. I like to share my wow moments with my friends.

My biggest disappointment with this text is that it has not been updated in many many years but the book is a compilation of different authors work so I guess updating would be very difficult. The text is an "industry standard" for this class. Universities across the nation use it. Moving on.

Sometimes I read something and then savor the WOW of the moment.

Authentic HappinessThe belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who in the middle of great wealth are starving spiritually. Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

WOW!

I had a WOW in my reading today and wanted to share.

A little bit about the terms first. Cognitive complexity is simply the ability to perceive differences among people so cognitive simplicity would be the inability to do the same.

Ok, so now for what made me laugh...

"Research has confirmed personality differences in terms of cognitive style. People high in cognitive complexity are better able to make predictions about other people's behavior. They more readily recognize differences between themselves and others, are more empathic, and deal better with inconsistent information in constructing others than do people high in cognitive simplicity (Crockett, 1982).