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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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What This Book Is About | |
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The Worry Machine | |
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Protection at a Price | |
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Luke's Struggle | |
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My Mind, My Bodyguard | |
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The Argument Trap | |
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The Paradox of Thought Suppression | |
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A Day in the Life of a Mind | |
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What Is the Mind? | |
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Why the Mind Worries | |
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How the Mind Speaks | |
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Anxiety and Depression: Ancient Tools for Modern Times | |
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The Mind Is Always Rational, from a Certain Point of View | |
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Letting the Mind Do Its Job | |
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From the Mind's Point of View, Survival Matters Most | |
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Thoughts Are Not Facts | |
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Observing Your Thoughts | |
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Observing Your Emotions | |
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Happiness Is Not Your Mind's Job | |
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How the Mind Uses History | |
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How Penelope Lost Track of Her Values | |
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The Past Is Not the Problem | |
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The Mind's False Dilemmas | |
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The Mind's Skewed View and Biased Memories | |
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What the Mind Fears and How It Responds | |
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The Survival Value of Biased Recall | |
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How the Mind Makes Rules to Keep Us Safe | |
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Values and Action | |
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Training the Mind to Tolerate the Pursuit of Values | |
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The Higher Mind | |
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Finding Your Values | |
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Control Your Life, Not Your Mind | |
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The Trap of Waiting for Thoughts and Feelings to Change | |
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Take Your Mind with You on the Road to Valued Living | |
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Four Ways Our Minds Coerce Us-and What We Can Do About Them | |
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That Was Then and This Is Then | |
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What Meg Doesn't Know About Andy | |
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Why Our Minds Rely on History | |
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Trump Cards and Double Standards | |
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Trump Cards | |
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Responding to Trump Cards | |
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Double Standards | |
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Staying Observant and Maintaining Distance | |
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Pessimistic Thinking | |
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It Isn't Pessimism-It's Error Management | |
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Pessimism: The Ancient Cure for Modern Times | |
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Living with a Pessimistic Mind | |
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Quick Fixes | |
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How the Mind Competes with Itself | |
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Breaking the Quick-Fix Habit | |
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Managing the Drive for Quick Fixes | |
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Mood, Lifestyle, and Psychological Flexibility | |
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Welcome to Your State of Mind | |
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Mallory's Mood | |
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Don't Trust Every Mood You Meet | |
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My Mind Might Be Wrong | |
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Opposite Action: Moving Toward Values | |
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To Medicate or Not to Medicate? | |
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Mind the Basics | |
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How Healthy Habits Insulate Us from the Mind | |
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One Final Exercise: Increasing Psychological Flexibility for a Lifetime | |
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References | |