Sublime

“Your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself.”

Carl Rogers

In addition to the three psychological schools of thought described by Pine, recent years have seen the development of a fourth: mentalisation theory (Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). This theory reserves a central place for the ability of people to correctly assess their own and others’ mental states. People develop this ability via “attachment”, the

Deci and Ryan suggested that the most powerful motivation of all is intrinsic motivation, which is ‘activated’ in the presence of three human needs: autonomy; competence; relatedness. Autonomy

You were taught to be obedient.

“I have always believed that if I could help someone get more of what’s important to him as a person, then everything else will take care of itself.

Fred Rogers never forgot how powerless and disoriented he felt when he was young, and he made it his life’s work to help any children who were also on that hard road—which is to say, all of them.