Healthy people choose to accept themselves unconditionally, rather than measure or rate themselves or try to prove themselves.<\/p>\n
RISK-TAKING<\/strong><\/p>\n Emotionally healthy people choose to take risks and have a spirit of adventure in trying to do what they want to do, without being foolhardy.<\/p>\n NON-UTOPIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n We are unlikely to get everything we want or to avoid everything we find painful. Healthy people do not waste time striving for the unattainable or for unrealistic perfection.<\/p>\n HIGH FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Healthy people recognize that there are only two sorts of problems they are likely to encounter: those they can do something about and those they cannot. Once this discrimination has been made, the goal is to modify those obnoxious conditions we can change, and to accept (or lump) those we cannot change.<\/p>\n SELF-RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISTURBANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Rather than blaming others, the world, or fate for their distress, healthy individuals accept a good deal of responsibility for their own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.<\/p>\n SELF-INTEREST<\/strong><\/p>\n Emotionally healthy people tend to put their own interests at least a little above the interests of others. They sacrifice themselves to some degree for those for whom they care, but not overwhelmingly or completely.<\/p>\n SOCIAL INTEREST<\/strong><\/p>\n Most people choose to live in social groups, and to do so most comfortably and happily, they would be wise to act morally, protect the rights of others, and aid in the survival of the society in which we live.<\/p>\n
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