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If the goal of climbing a mountain were to get to the top, that would be a kinetic act.

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

One man’s decision to change his life, instead of cursing fate, shook the whole pathological system of communist tyranny to its core. It crumbled entirely, not so many years later, and Solzhenitsyn’s courage was not the least of the reasons why. He was not the only such person to perform such a miracle. Václav Havel, the persecuted writer who later, impossibly, became the president of Czechoslovakia, then of the new Czech Republic, comes to mind, as does Mahatma Gandhi.

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)

All these interventions emphasize not getting angry. Don’t yell, don’t escalate, and definitely don’t hit. Controlling parental anger is the first central part of the intervention.

Cribsheet

Emily Oster

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