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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

That is the challenge: to let writing teach us about life and life about writing. Let it flow back and forth.

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

To help myself stay truer to that principle, I started a practice of limiting myself to listing three objectives for the following day, laid out right below my mission at the top of the journal page. Ideally, these objectives are mission related, but even if they’re not, even if they include minor tasks like “Finish errands for the party,” thinking of them as sub-missions or mini-missions will help imbue them with the significance they need for you to get your hustle on and get them done.

Own the Day, Own Your Life

Aubrey Marcus

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