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Break's over, folks. That pile of work you left laying around from midterm season never really went away, no matter how far your mind drifted away from it over break. FlyBy applauds you for taking the pain now...while all your friends find themselves scrambling for study guides late in reading period, you'll be loving yourself...
...Accept Pain and Sadness Being optimistic doesn't mean shutting out sad or painful emotions. As a clinical psychologist, Martin Seligman, who runs the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says he used to feel proud whenever he helped depressed patients rid themselves of sadness, anxiety or anger. "I thought I would get a happy person," he says. "But I never did. What I got was an empty person." That's what prompted him to launch the field of positive psychology, with a groundbreaking address to the American Psychological Association in 1998. Instead of focusing only on righting...
...capitalism have insisted that the withering away of enterprises and entire industries is a healthy and necessary part of a vibrant, self-correcting economic system; now, more than at any time since Joseph Schumpeter popularized the idea of creative destruction in 1942, we must endure the shocking and awesome pain of that metamorphosis. After decades of talking the talk, now we're all obliged to walk the walk...
...suffering. And if you've got a liver that's 10 times its normal size, a duck is going to be uncomfortable. But a duck being uncomfortable in the last days before it's slaughtered, is that torture? I think of torture as a willful sadistic administration of pain and by that measure, I don't think it is. Torture is one of those loaded words that's effective as propaganda, but not particularly accurate as a description...
...Fidesz has been vague about the reforms it would implement, creating the belief among many supporters that it can reform the economy without the painful reforms and austerity measures analysts say are desperately needed. "The big question is whether the public is prepared for reform from a credible new Prime Minister," says Szabados, "or a Prime Minister who still believes in managing the crisis without pain?" (See TIME's pictures of the week...