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There are two ends to a stick, and there’s more than one way of working. If it’s for human beings—make sure and do it properly. If it’s for the big man—just make it look good.
Michael Simsa
Not The MAn, the Big Man
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C.G. Jung
“Here each of us must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving int he crowd?”
C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

Meg Jay
“Dating for me in my twenties was like this musical-chairs thing. Everybody was running around and having fun. Then I hit thirty and it was like the music stopped and everybody started sitting down. I didn’t want to be the only one left without a chair. Sometimes I think I married my husband just because he was the closest chair to me at thirty. Sometimes I think I should have just waited for someone who might be a better partner, and maybe I should have, but that seemed risky. What I really wish I’d done is thought more about marriage sooner. Like when I was in my twenties.”
Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

C.G. Jung
“The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world.”
C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

Christopher Lasch
“It appears that the prostitute, not the salesman, best exemplifies the qualities indispensable to success in American society.”
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

Scott Barry Kaufman
“Some people—those with high levels of neuroticism, need for closure, and obsessive-compulsive disorder—find uncertainty particularly aversive. Neuroticism is a personality trait characterized by a pattern of negative affect, anxiety, fear, and rumination. When people high in neuroticism are exposed to uncertain feedback compared to negative feedback, the nervous system delivers an outsize emotion-laden response.17 As psychologists Jacob Hirsh and Michael Inzlicht note, people scoring high in neuroticism “prefer the devil they know over the devil they do not know.” The implications of neuroticism for mental health are tremendous, with some researchers going so far as to argue that neuroticism is the common core of all forms of psychopathology!”
Scott Barry Kaufman, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

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