explained to her that in addition to having a clear sense of your values and a life filled with actions that align with those values (as described in chapter 5), it’s also important to experience both pleasure and mastery. When I say pleasure, I mean activities that you passively enjoy, like going to a show, eating, or shopping. In contrast, mastery, a term described by one of the founders of CBT, psychiatrist Aaron Beck, involves doing activities that create a sense of accomplishment, like learning to cook, studying a foreign language, or practicing mindfulness, activities where you
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