Happiness is getting along with a person closest to you. If you want to get along with a person closest to you, you have to know how, and if you want to know how, you have to learn and become proficient in it and become a master. And if you want to know whether you have become a master, you have to be verified. Just like a driver’s license.
Man and woman are different even if they have the same brain. Man, who has a developed left brain, is intellectual, proactive, and is superior in analyzing and integrating. On the other hand, woman, who has a developed right brain, is intuitive, sensitive, passive, and emotional. So man’s virtue is courage, toughness, competitive spirit, power, control, dominance, and aggression, and woman’s virtue is gentleness, expressivity, responsiveness, sensitiveness, and adaptability. As man grows, instrumental aspects like autonomy, activity, creativity, momentum, ambition, courage, assertion, and leadership develops. On the contrary, woman develops expressive aspects such as nurturing, gentleness, warmth, caring, sympathy, spoken words and gesture.
After finding out that happiness is a skill that must be learned, and needs energy which must be supplied daily, I made up my mind to make a tonic for my family for a lifetime. Even to couples attending the Happiness Class for Couples, I ordered them to make themselves, their children, and each other take 3 doses of compliment tonic. Of course, I make them a tonic first. I deliver my compliment tonic once a week by phone or text message.
If you want to be happy, knowing one’s identity is the top priority. A person who hasn’t asked the question, ‘Who am I?”, and a person who hasn’t thought hard about one’s roots cannot say that he or she is happy. A person who has thought deeply about oneself newly recognizes one’s own value at the crossroad of whether to live as myself or as someone else. If one newly realizes one’s value, one knows the direction of life and one’s life changes afterwards. In his mind, there is a compass of life always showing the right direction.
“Live ‘here and now.’ Only when you can live here and now, you can keep your composure, and only when you become such a person, you can use and enjoy humor. Only when you become such a person, you can draw a big picture in your mind, and the person who meets such a person feels comfortable. And a person who lives here and now is always diligent. Equip yourself with expertise armed with excellence. You never know when and how a person with skills might be used. So have faith in yourself. Be a person who knows how to trust others. Even if there is something difficult, do not give up until the end. Get back up even if you fall seven times. That will become the foundation for your future. Recognize your own emotion and desire ‘now.’
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