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In general, all interpersonal relationship troubles are caused by intruding on other people’s tasks, or having one’s own tasks intruded on. Carrying out the separation of tasks is enough to change one’s interpersonal relationships dramatically.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
It is when one is able to feel “I am beneficial to the community” that one can have a true sense of one’s worth.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
No one likes a braggart.
If you’re religious, perhaps you know Proverbs 27:2: “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.”
Or Leonardo da Vinci: “He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
Or Mark Twain: “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
One of my favorites is by humorist Evan Esar: “The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery — amputation at the neck.”
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks
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