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"The bitter art of life", through comics, cartoons, short stories, the poetry and sayings gives us the opportunity to recognize our personal style front certain situations. Reading a book is simple and complex at once, can be read as a comic story or provide a splendid opportunity to reflect on the procedures by which a person is building a life miserable. His language agile, ironic and paradoxical sometimes causes us to laugh and sometimes we are confronted with the ways in which we are contributing to our own unhappiness.
Paul Watzlawick (Austria, 1921) studied philosophy, philology and psychology. Founding member of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.
Who has not ever become daily events in unbearable and trivial events disproportionate? Bitter life is easy. But bitter develop the art of life in a systematic and consistent demand some learning, often unconscious, and the more consciously.
In principle, we all want to be very happy. Watzlawick invites us to discover the reasons why we make regular and frequent occurrences of life huge mountains full of anguish: "Be true to yourself", that is, only your opinion is correct. "You'll soon discover that the world goes from bad to worse" because the very fact that you suggest something is grounds for rejection. "See the past with a filter" will cause the applicant to the bitter life contemplates only lost youth, the golden age that was never to return.
The background pattern is anchored in the explanation of the judgments that usually we make about whether or disagreement of the events occurring around us. The book, newly arrived in Mexico, encouraged to be creators of our own happiness and stop building misery.
CONTENTS Editor's Note
Foreword Introduction
on all this: Be true to yourself ..
the past four years
1. The sublimation of the past
2. Lot's wife
3. The fatal glass of beer
4. Key lost or "more of the same" Russian and American
History
hammer in hand Peas
The frightened elephant man
self-fulfilling prophecies
Beware arrival
If really loved me, would you eat garlic
willingly "Be spontaneous"
If somebody wants me, not in his right mind
"Man must be noble, helpful and kind" These foreigners fools
Life as a game
Epilogue Bibliographical Index
FOREWORD
The new book by Paul Watzlawick you can read half joking and half serious. It is possible that the reader finds in this book something of himself, namely his own style of turning the ordinary into something unbearable and the trivial in proportion.
addition, although the author does not confess to anything, this book makes a unique and extensive "prescription symptomatic", a therapeutic double bind very similar to the so-called 'Group of Palo Alto. "
The psychotherapist or assistant you may know to read between the lines of these malicious pages much material that has a direct meaning for the therapeutic dialogue: metaphors, cartoons, jokes, anecdotes and other forms of mocking talk of "right hemisphere", which are infinitely more effective than the solemn and serious interpretations of the wrong attitudes of humans. FOREWORD
In the heart of Europe was once a great empire. What were so many different cultures, which could not always achieved a reasonable solution to any problem and the absurd was the only viable way of life. Its inhabitants, the Austro-Hungarians, as the reader will have already guessed, became proverbial, not their inability to cope in a reasonable manner with the problems simple, but for its ability to achieve the impossible in some way almost by mistake. England, says a proverb, always loses the battle being the only decisive, Austria always loses the battle being the only despair. (No wonder that since then the highest military decoration is reserved for officers who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with any action that is in gross contradiction with the general plan of battle.)
The great empire has become a small region, but the absurd has been the concept of life of its inhabitants, and the author of these pages is no exception. For them, the situation is hopeless but not serious. INTRODUCTION
"What can you expect from a man? Cólmelo you of all the goods of the earth, dip in happiness to the neck, up over his head so that the surface of your bliss, and the level of the water, the bubbles rise, give an income not have more than sleep, eat cakes and look for the permanence of the human species, yet this same man of pure ungrateful, by simple nerve, you play him on the spot tricks. Maybe commit the same cake and will wish that evil befalls him craziest, most wasteful stupidity, just to put this situation perfectly reasonable fantasy element of his own bad luck. Exactly, his fantastic ideas, stupidity trivial, is what you will want to keep ... "
These words come from the pen of a man, Friedrich Nietzsche considered the greatest psychologists of all time: Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Actually just say, rather than in a more eloquent, as popular wisdom has always known: there is nothing harder to bear than a series of good days.
It is time to end the ancient tales of old women who have the happiness, joy, good fortune as appealing targets. Too long has tried to convince us, and we willingly believe that the pursuit of happiness in the end will bring happiness.
funny thing is that the concept of happiness can not even defined. For example, in September 1972, listeners of the seventh series of radio emission Hessen night witnessed the discussion, certainly surprising, on the theme "What is happiness," in which four representatives from different ideologies and disciplines failed to agree on the meaning of this concept seems so clear, despite the efforts of a moderator eminently reasonable (and patient).
In fact, it should not be surprised. "How What is happiness? On this issue, opinions were always mixed, "we read in an essay by the philosopher Robert Spaemann on the happy life (22):" 289 views Terentius Varro was, and Augustine abounds in this regard. All men want to be happy, says Aristotle. "And then Spaemann refers to the wisdom of Jewish history, which tells of a son to his father expressing his desire to marry with Miss Katz. "The father objects, because Miss Katz does nothing. The son replies that it will only be happy if he marries Miss Katz. The father says: "Be happy, do and how you serve it?" "
Literature and we should have inspired universal confidence. Misfortunes, tragedies, disasters, crimes, sins, delusions, dangers, these are the themes of the great creations. Dante's Hell is infinitely cooler than his Paradise, the same can be said of Milton's Paradise Lost, by his side, Paradise regained is downright dull, the fall of Jedermann (Hofmannsthal) drag, however, that at last the angels save him, causing a ridiculous effect, the first part of Faust moved to tears, the second to yawn. Let us have no illusions
: what would be or where would we be without our misfortune? What
need to rage, in the proper sense of the word.
Our warm-blooded cousins \u200b\u200bin the animal kingdom are luckier than us, just to see the monstrous effects of living in the zoo: those magnificent creatures are protected from hunger, danger, sickness (including protection against dental caries) and converted into the equivalent of the neurotic and psychotic people.
Our world in danger of drown in a flood of recipes to be happy, can not wait more time we take a cable of salvation. No longer can remain competitive in these mechanisms and processes under the jealously guarded domain of psychiatry and psychology.
The number of those who manage their own misery as best know and can, may seem relatively large. But it is infinitely greater number of those in this occupation need advice and help. They were engaged the following pages to manual mode of initiation.
should add that this altruistic purpose carries a political significance. As the directors of a small size zoo in large States have also set itself the task of life of citizens so that it, from cradle to grave, is safe and dripping with happiness. But this is only possible through systematic education of the citizen that makes you incompetent in society. For this reason, throughout the Western world, public spending for health and social policy increase from year to year in ever greater proportions. As noted by Thayer, between 1968 and 1970, these expenditures were fired in the U.S. 34%, from 11 to 14 billion dollars. In the most recent statistics from the Federal Republic of Germany show that only public expenditure on health amounts each day to 450 million marks, representing an increase of thirty times greater than in 1950. In this country there are tens of millions of patients and the normal citizen to take his life over 36,000 tablets. Imagine for a moment what What if the rising tide stopped or reversed. Giant ministries would collapse, entire sectors of industry would be declared bankrupt and millions of men would go on the dole.
This book aims to provide a small contribution, but conscious and responsible, so as to avoid this catastrophe. The state needs
so hard that the helplessness and misery of its population continually increases, this task can not be trusted to test a well-intentioned citizens fans. As in all sectors of modern life, also here one needs a public address. A life can anyone bitter, but bitter life purpose is a learned art, not enough to have any personal experience with a couple of setbacks.
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