Author: Andrew Taggart
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What’s the difference between life coaching and philosophical counseling?
The distinction can be drawn in the following way. Life coaching works on the assumption that the client already has a goal in mind yet is unsure how to reach that goal or feels as though she lacks the willpower or mental resources to do so. Life coaching seeks to better equip us to make…
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The role of Stoicism in the development of Rational Emotional Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Here’s the article abstract.
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On resilience and tragedy
Resilience: an antidote to tragedy. Conclusion: “[M]ental toughness is something like the physical strength: It cannot develop without exercise, and it breaks down when overworked.”
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On the value of resilience
In his book The Wisdom of the Ego, George Vaillant argues that resilience involves the ability to bend like a reed and to spring back. Could resilience be a kind of happiness?
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NYT columnist David Brooks on civility
Civility, Brooks shows, is a public virtue that’s largely absent from political life today. He concludes that the source of civility is a sense of modesty.
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 