#604 Thinking Makes It So: Shakespeare's Guide to Inner Peace

Happiness Podcast by Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.

Sep 11, 202611:01Health

Over four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a line in Hamlet that perfectly captured the foundation of modern cognitive psychology: 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' We spend so...

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