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It’s true that one often hears parents today using the phrase “It’s for your own good.” But they are clearly doing so in order to fulfill their own goals, which could be their appearance in the eyes of society, their need to put on airs, or their desire for control, for example. In other words, it is not “for your own good” but for the parents’. And it is because the child senses this deception that he rebels.

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

And so, when you buy that special shirt, smart phone or purse, you are not just buying the value of that item but you are often feeling good from—what I would like to call “the outside in.” By having the right thing, the right brand, you feel that somehow you have arrived and that you are okay.

Inside Out Thinking

psychologytoday.com

This is the “secret” of those people who “do so many things” and apparently so many difficult things. They do only one at a time. As a result, they need much less time in the end than the rest of us.

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

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