Father of modern stress research Hans Selye compares the independent achievement focus to “the development of a cancer, whose most characteristic feature is that it cares only for itself. Hence, it feeds on the other parts of its own host until it kills the host—and thus commits biological suicide, since a cancer cell cannot live except within the body in which it started its reckless, egocentric development.”2 To some extent, as a society, we’re on a ladder that’s leaning against the wrong wall. We’re living with the illusion of independence, but the paradigm is not creating the
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