The article uses the metaphor of a dance parade to explain life’s processes of change, emphasizing that success in life involves deploying the right 'dance moves' at appropriate moments. With over forty years of research, the author underscores the complexity of these changes and warns against oversimplified categorizations of behaviors as merely 'good' or 'bad'. The idea is to embrace a variety of emotional and behavioral responses, much like dancers in a parade who adapt to maintain rhythm and creativity in their performance.
After more than four decades of work, and thousands of studies by my colleagues and more than a few by yours truly, we know a lot about the moves you need to learn in this dance of life.
If you keep stumbling and falling, you can't keep up. If you insist on marching only in one straight line, you'll miss the route turns.
You need a variety of moves, and you must combine them skillfully and fit them to the moment. That's how the moves become synchronized with others.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad ideas out there even from well-meaning psychologists or other professionals. I want to tell you how to recognize them.
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