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Tables of Contents for Feeling Right When Things Go Wrong
Chapter/Section Title
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DEDICATION
iii
6
INTRODUCTION
ix
1. Emotional Applesauce as Disturbance: When Preference and Demand Are Made to Run Together
1
6
2. Is the Grass Really Greener on the Other Side? Hope as Virtue, False Hope as Vice
7
10
3. Thirteen Scripts That People Invent: Uninvention as a Means of Discovering Emotional Well-Being
17
34
4. Curtailing the "Have to"s Because You Want to: Twenty-Five Good Reasons to Better Dictate Emotional Well-Being by Avoiding Becoming Your Own Worst Dictator
51
10
5. Dime a Dozen: Unsolicited Advisements as Lead Balloons
61
6
6. Self-Confidence Versus Performance Confidence: Is What You See Really What You Get?
67
6
7. From Rags to Riches: Avoiding the Disadvantages of Advantages
73
6
8. Use of Force and Enforcement in Countering With Fuller Force Emotional Upset
79
4
9. The Ultraconformist and the Nagging Dissenter: Similar Hearses With Different License Plates
83
10
10. Whys and Wherefores: Eight Reasons to Avoid Paralysis of the Analysis
93
4
11. Accepting the Bad, Yet Refuting the Good: Extracting the Ego from Compliment Phobia
97
8
12. The Long and Short of It: Length of Solution as Shortened from the Length of the Problem
105
10
13. Is "One Day at a Time" Really the One Way to Live the One Life That You Will Ever Have?
115
4
14. Know-It-Alls: Knowing, Understanding, Accepting, and Coping With Them
119
8
15. Jump Out of Your Skin and Get It Over With: Accepting the Worst to Get to the Better
127
6
16. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall -- Who Is the Fairest of Them All? Compassion, Not Comparison
133
6
17. Owning Up to the Facts of Self-Pity
139
8
18. Threatened Without Feeling Threat: Making Yourself Less Vulnerable to the Fearsome Foursome of the Anxiety Family
147
10
19. Doing Someone a Favor By Asking for One: Redefining Assertive Solicitation
157
8
20. Double Whammy: Arrogance and Reverse Arrogance -- Two Sides of the Same Perfectionistic Coin
165
8
21. Defeatism and Its Conveniences
173
8
22. White Lies Versus Black Truths: Twelve Reasons Why It Is Not Always Practical or Advisable to Be Honest
181
8
23. Pain in the Neck, Burr in the Saddle, Thorn in the Side: Containing Annoyances
189
8
24. When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Golden Rules and Their Contradictions and Contraindications
197
8
25. Blind Alleys, and Why You Would Be Lost Without Them
205
6
26. Trial and Error Without Putting Yourself on Trial
211
8
27. And Justice for All: Doing Justice to Yourself By Not Overreacting to Injustice
219
6
28. Playing Possum: Understanding and Overcoming Disguised Ignorance
225
8
29. Pacifying Your Own Discomfort By Suggesting That Others Squelch Theirs
233
8
30. Free Will, Human Limits, Rights to Be Wrong: Explaining the Seemingly Unexplainable
241
4
BIBLIOGRAPHY
245