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Get in touch with your inner child

Get in touch with your inner child

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Get in touch with your inner child

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- Now this next happiness tip is going to be a fun one to do. It's to be more childlike, to do more childish things. And this is because fun, which is a significant part of happiness, along with peace of mind, which I'll cover elsewhere. Fun comes from your inner child. Eric Berne came up with a theory called transactional analysis back in the 1970s. And it said that our brains have a parent part, an adult part and a child part. And it's the child part which is responsible for courage, creativity and fun. Some people grow up while still retaining a large child component. In fact, if your child component is too large, you might have a lot of fun but run out of money or even end up in prison as you do lots of silly things like ignoring rules, getting into fights, maybe even drugs, and generally not planning for the future. But if you let your adult take over too much, you'll end up being very sensible with lots of planning ahead and organization, but you might not be very good at having…

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