I also really enjoyed this book, and he comes off as a really decent human being. Not sure how much of it has stuck, but one thing that did is the idea that my

I also really enjoyed this book, and he comes off as a really decent human being. Not sure how much of it has stuck, but one thing that did is the idea that my enjoyment/satisfaction of doing something is often far greater in retrospect than in prospect. There is some thought, though, that the "cognitive" part of CBT isn't actually what matters. The line of thought is that the initial studies did both the cognitive and the behavioral, but that it was the behavioral part that produced more or less the entire result. It'll probably never be seriously studied further, since CBT is so popular, but it does suggest one core piece of advice: Doing something, almost anything, will probably make you feel better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_activation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_activation Beyond that, someone suggested that simply accepting that depression will always be with you can help. It seems to have for me.