Sublime

The sermon now needed to enter the personality of the listener. And Henry realized that the only key that fit the lock of individual personality was personality itself.

Feedback from other people plays a role in shaping our personalities as well.

Berne labeled networks that develop early in life as Child ego states. When we activate one of these, we act like the child we once were. Networks which represent the internalization of the people who raised us, as we experienced them, Berne named Parent. When in Parent we think, feel, and act like one of our parents or like someone who took their

The philosopher Karl Jaspers once said that how a man responds to failure determines who he will become.

Emerson’s observation that “almost all people descend to meet.”

network leaders focus on increasing the quantity and quality of relationships between others.

grownup lives like a kid unless someone around him takes the adult role.

“If an individual has ego needs that are too high,” notes Peter Friedes, Hewitt’s managing partner, “they can be a very disruptive influence.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.