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This isn't about suppressing feelings but about using rational analysis as a stabilizing force.
Matthew Denman • The Altruistic Renegade
CONNECTIONS AND DISCONNECTIONS The problem with leadership is at its core a story of disconnections: • the disconnect between what leaders say and what they do; • the disconnect between the leadership industry’s prescriptions and the reality of many leaders’ behaviors and traits; • the disconnect between the multidimensional nature of leadership
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
In the area of thought, there is the intellectual who discusses his or her personal problems as though they belong to someone else. In a state of total dissociation, this individual does not experience the emotional meaning of anything he or she says or hears; such an individual prefers to talk about psychology in general rather than his or her
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
The next is accepting that what’s rational to one person can be crazy to another. Everything would compute if everyone had the same time horizon, goals, ambitions, and risk tolerances. But they don’t.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
disconnect from core values.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
Manage Goal Discrepancy
Jeffrey Rice • Your Future ADHD Self: An ADHD-Friendly Guide to Planning and Goal Setting
detachment issues make it almost impossible to connect and form a unified partnership, so the couple become individuals living together and making life choices in conflicting ways which threaten to tear their partnership in half.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
Logic, in the end, could snap Crandall from a rage.