My column on Monday in The Free Press talked about the culture of therapy today—and, more to the point, whether therapy can make you happier (or just less unhappy). One of my arguments was that mental pain—the reason most people seek out therapy in the first place—was not an inherently bad thing. On the contrary, negative emotions serve to alert us to t…
Arthur Brooks: Suffer Like a Marine
Either you can try—fruitlessly, as long as you are in this mortal coil—to eliminate pain, or you can lower your resistance to pain when it inevitably comes.
“Lowering your resistance to pain is a mysterious idea.” (Illustration by The Free Press; images via Getty)
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