Identity

You don’t immediately think, “This tiger needs to go to tiger therapy and get a prescription for tiger anti-depressants so it can feel better about living in a zoo and stop feeling sad about having to suppress its wild instincts”. You don’t think the tiger needs to “get over it” and make the most of its situation. You don’t consider showing the

challenge at least two of the counterproductive assumptions Clare’s story revealed: the feeling that she had to force herself—that there needed to be an inner conflict; and that this constant conflict is normal,

As an introvert, I deeply value alone time, and I often feel the loneliest when I’m with other people

the elevation of emotion over reason and of the senses over the intellect; an introspective orientation and fascination with the self; hypersensibility and heightened awareness of sentiments and moods; a keen interest in strangers and strangeness; the pose of a contrarian; a belief in community combined with a need for solitude; an appreciation for

I know now that being afraid of things going wrong is not the way to make them go right

procrastination is not a character defect; rather, it is an attempt—albeit an unsatisfactory one—at coping with the often incapacitating fear of having our worth held up for judgment.