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PHILOSOPHER: One has to pay attention. Adlerian psychology does not recommend the noninterference approach. Noninterference is the attitude of not knowing, and not even being interested in knowing what the child is doing. Instead, it is by knowing what the child is doing that one protects him. If it’s studying that is the issue, one tells the child
... See moreIchiro Kishimi • The Courage to Be Disliked
Mystery, he also had a reputation for befriending younger students just so they’d take him to parties. I invited Ross to his first event the following week. Monica, a struggling but well-connected actress I’d sarged, had invited me to her birthday party at Belly, a tapas bar on Santa Monica Boulevard. I thought it would be a good scene full of beau
... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.’
Daniel Keyes • Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 6)
A child can be falsely empowered through neglect, as happens when kids are parented by gangs of peers in lieu of appropriate adults to guide them. Children need limits. Children’s natural grandiose, selfish tendencies need to be ameliorated by an adult.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
Fromm argued that those freed from oppression but unable to develop a positive version of freedom were destined to be filled with feelings of separateness and anxiety.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
make interpretations that surface the conflictual aspects of the problem, you can lead people to begin identifying which losses are negotiable and which are not,
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
all good lovers are in a way good psychotherapists: that is, the success of modern romantic relationships critically depends on the degree to which both partners can, at crucial moments, adopt a therapeutic attitude toward the other’s compulsions, blind spots, rages, and eccentricities.