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\"springsteen\"<\/a>In 1975, I was a year out of law school and a pal asked if I wanted to drive up from L.A. to Santa Barbara to catch a Bruce Springsteen concert.\u00a0 I hadn’t heard of the guy.\u00a0 I went up on a “what the heck” ride.\u00a0 It remains the most rocking, outrageous concert experience of my life.\u00a0 What I remember now years later is that he had a band that was so tight, had practiced so much, that they acted as one instrument.\u00a0 The other thing I remember was the man’s energy.\u00a0 Jon Stewart once said that Springsteen empties the tank in his concerts and that is an apt description.\u00a0 When he was young, the guy would light up a city when he’d come through.\u00a0 He did 4 consecutive nights in L.A. in the late 70’s and everywhere you went for days afterward, people were in a daze – “Which night did you go?”\u00a0 “Did he play ‘It’s My Life’\u00a0(an old\u00a060’s classic)\u00a0at your concert?” “Can you believe it….3 encores!”\u00a0 Set aside his great melodies and poetic lyrics.\u00a0 The guy found the thing he knew he was 10+ on a scale of 10 and he did it.\u00a0 Every public pronouncement from him is admonition to us to do the same.\u00a0 Embrace the passion of being alive.\u00a0 It’s a hard road for so many of us and the only thing we can ever control is our belief in ourselves.\u00a0 Encouragement of that is one of therapy’s goals.\u00a0 Many of us learned who we were in this world through families that told us we weren’t much (or worse, were burdens and fundamentally bad)<\/em>.\u00a0 Perhaps more common was the encouragement of aspects of self that didn’t reflect what we somehow knew to be our essence.\u00a0 This would go hand-in-hand with discouragement or disregard for parts of our character that we knew<\/em> were truly an expression of our true and best selves.\u00a0 One reason I think that Bruce Springsteen galvanized so many people to loyalty bordering on idolatry is that his work provided the constant message: “Life can be hard.\u00a0 You’ll be challenged – but you’re up to the task.”\u00a0 Seligman would add, “Learn and embrace your signature strengths (<\/em>see my\u00a0earlier post).\u00a0 They’re yours.\u00a0 Their expression in your life is where you’ll find meaning and happiness.”\u00a0 Right on, Marty!\u00a0 Right on, Bruce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1975, I was a year out of law school and a pal asked if I wanted to drive up from L.A. to Santa Barbara to catch a Bruce Springsteen concert.\u00a0 I hadn’t heard of the guy.\u00a0 I went up on a “what the heck” ride.\u00a0 It remains the most rocking, outrageous concert experience of Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[18,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}