A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

Re:A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Hap... by meester on Friday May 17, 2013 @12:32PM (#5725332)

Albert Ellis has already proven the answer to this is "yes". In short, we are the ones typically responsible for our own neurosis as we maintain flawed thinking or understandings of reality. People with loving parents have turned out screwed up kids, just the same.

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Re:A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Hap... by calinet6 on Friday May 17, 2013 @03:05PM (#5726145)

"People with loving parents have turned out screwed up kids, just the same."

This simply does not matter if there is a statistically valid conclusion saying the opposite.

There will always be outliers and anecdotes. You should be looking at the statistical trend, not individual cases.

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Re:A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Hap... by meester on Saturday May 18, 2013 @05:47AM (#5728377)

I'd say it's valid if science says otherwise

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Re:A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Hap... by calinet6 on Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:57AM (#5729127)

Now you're just being silly.

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Re:A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Hap... by alanh on Friday May 17, 2013 @02:17PM (#5725885)

I’m sorry, but your comment is quite confusing. Would you mind clarifying your points?

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Re:A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Hap... by meester on Saturday May 18, 2013 @05:50AM (#5728384)

My point is, if you had bad parents, or no parents, you can change your behavior and thinking patterns and end up better off than kids who had good parents.

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