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Here there is no such call. Like a parent who doesn’t need a small child to reciprocate, the therapist voluntarily forgoes equality in the relationship; they won’t talk of their regrets or insist on their anecdotes. They simply want to help us find what is best for us, understood on our terms. They won’t have a preconceived view of how we’re meant
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the origins of our evasiveness and inadvertent slyness.
The School of Life • A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity
makes work authentic is the deeply individual fit between the nature of our role and our own aptitudes and sources of pleasure.
The School of Life • The Meaning of Life: The true ingredients of fulfilment
The dream is that they will teach us by example and encouragement and that, under the protection of their love, we will grow to our full potential.
The School of Life • How to Get Married
We can easily find ourselves pursuing a career that society considers prestigious, but which we are not intrinsically devoted to ourselves – one that does not fulfil us on a day-to-day basis.
The School of Life • How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life)
In an emotionally healthy childhood, the child can see that the good carer isn’t either entirely good or wholly bad and so isn’t worthy of either idealization or denigration. The child accepts the faults and virtues of the carer with melancholy maturity and gratitude – and in doing so, by extension, becomes ready to accept that everyone they like w
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