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At any rate, it’s good advice to “watch your tail.” You never know what you might knock down.
On Character
Stanley McChrystal
We don’t want to accept negative feelings because they’re so . . . well . . . negative. We don’t want to give them any power. We want to correct them, diminish them, or preferably make them disappear altogether. Our intuition tells us to push those feelings away as fast and hard as possible. But this is one instance in which our intuition is leading us astray.
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
Joanna Faber and Julie King
In a mimetic rivalry, a person’s rival is like Zeus or the matador. The rival determines what a person wants next, which goals they pursue, what they think about when they go to bed at night. If a person doesn’t realize what’s happening, the game will bring them to the point of exhaustion, and maybe worse.
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