Would I do it again? Evolution to a new training paradigm.

摘要

I recently had the great fortune to participate in a NOVA television project called This Emotional Life. It was a 3-part series examining the science of human happiness. My story was featured in the third episode: "Rethinking Happiness." I was, in the terminology of the day, an illegitimate child, and I grew up living with my mother and grandmother. My mother worked as a waitress to support us, and shortly after my grandmother's death (I was 10 years old), she married a retired career US Navy cook. Upon his arrival in our world, my mother's alcoholism dramatically surfaced, with my new stepfather's assistance of course, because he was also an alcoholic. My mother quit working and thereafter went through prolonged periods of heavy drinking ultimately leading to her never-ending cycles of being bedridden and malnourished, and coming close to death. After a trip to the hospital, discharge to home, and a period of being dry, the cycle would inevitably recur.