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A common misconception about therapy is that it obliges endless, reductive discussion of one’s parents and an unsparing dissection of their alleged failures. Far from it, most therapy is reality-based, present-oriented. Nonetheless, our first experiences of relationship, our messages about security, trust, predictability, expectations, and other strategic dynamics, will derive from these archaic experiences with our primary caretakers and role models.
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
James Hollis
Most technology businesses do not fit Buffett’s pattern of evolutionary change, differentiated products, loyal habitual customers, and few competitors. The few that have the last three—including Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix—are spectacular winners. If change is constant, reinvention must also be.
Big Money Thinks Small
Joel Tillinghast
For me, the last 20 percent of a book’s improvement takes 95 percent of the effort—all in the editing. I can honestly say not one page I’ve ever published appears anywhere close to how it came out in first draft. A poem might take sixty versions. I am not much of a writer, but I am a stubborn little bulldog of a reviser.
The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
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