All posts tagged "power"
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Responding To Criticism
The psychological trick in responding to criticism is in figuring out whether it’s just or unjust. If it’s...
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Increasing Responsibility Is Increasing Power
Most of us believe we’re the heroes or the victims of our own life stories. We cycle through...
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Waiting For Your Therapist To Cure You
The therapeutic relationship provides an opportunity for the projection of responsibility for life problems. Many people who end...
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Irrational Authority and Off-Limits Subjects
Whether we’re talking about the patriarch of a nuclear family, a politician in a society, or any authority...
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Depression And Power
Depression and power have a paradoxical relationship. On the surface it seems like those suffering from depression are...
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What To Do With A Sense Of Impending Doom
The results of the election have left many with a sense of impending doom. Humanity finds itself at...
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Control And The Unexpected
The more control you exercise over happenings the less room you leave for the unexpected, for the spontaneous....
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Question Your Labels
The problem with being labeled, even when the label in question is culturally desirable, is that your available...
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Authority And Rebellion
Almost everybody identifies with and roots for the rebel alliance in Star Wars but many of these same people subtly...
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Inferiority And Superiority Are The Same
Feelings of superiority and feelings of inferiority are not distinct ways of being but rather two sides of...
