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“You should remember that in every person lives the same spirit which lives in us.” Everyone is trying their best. It was a mantra we kept repeating through the pandemic. Everyone is going through this with us, and everyone is trying their best. Maybe not their hardest, and they might
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In March 2018, Wendy Devuyst found that one of her hens had laid an unusually large egg. She suspected it was an egg-inside-an-egg (because the same hen had previously laid one of these), so she filmed herself cracking it open. And sure enough, it was. An egg
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Is Elon gonna let Bean Dad back on Twitter?
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“We determine our own lives according to the meaning we give to those past experiences. Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself, and you are the one who decides how you live” It’s not so much the hand that you are dealt,
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“In Adlerian psychology, trauma is definitively denied. This was a very new and revolutionary point. Certainly, the Freudian view of trauma is fascinating. Freud’s idea is that a person’s psychic wounds (traumas) cause his or her present unhappiness. When you treat a person’s life as a vast
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“This is the difference between etiology (the study of causation) and teleology (the study of the purpose of a given phenomenon, rather than its cause)” Not what caused the behavior, but why, what purpose is being served. What’s the goal here. Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. “The
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“in Adlerian psychology, we do not think about past “causes” but rather about present “goals” Instead of trying to unravel the why of something by looking at the past and creating a narrative, we need to look to present how this behavior is serving a need or a goal. For
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“making yourself free of empty wishes” What are empty wishes? From Epictetus. Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010–05–11. Apple Books.
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“The goal of shouting came before anything else. That is to say, by shouting, you wanted to make the waiter submit to you and listen to what you had to say. As a means to do that, you fabricated the emotion of anger.” Expressing anger is a way to short