A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
the principle of self-acceptance – you learn not to rate or evaluate yourself, but to appreciate that you are made up of hundreds of different facets that are constantly changing, and defy any sort of generalized, global assessment of yourself based on these.
Beat Low Self-Esteem With CBT
Wilding, Christine;Palmer, Stephen
While at that time some people referred to ‘attacks’ on free enterprise, Rockefeller preferred to talk about ‘criticisms’. This would give us a first precept: to translate attacks into criticism.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
The male “artistic” aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to symbolism and obscurity (“deep” stuff). The vast majority of people, particularly the “educated” ones, lacking faith in their own judgment, humble, respectful of authority (“Daddy knows best”), are easily conned into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance.