Tom Butler-Bowdon Quotes

#1. The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

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#2. Growing into an environment in which everyone else seems bigger and more powerful, every child seeks to gain what they need by the easiest route.

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#3. In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness; "a thousand talents and capabilities arise from our feelings of inadequacy," Adler noted.

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#4. Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

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#5. People who use the sensing mode are engrossed in what is around them, look only for facts, and find it less interesting to deal with ideas or abstractions. Intuitive people like to dwell in the unseen world of ideas and possibilities, distrustful of physical reality. Whatever

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#6. What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.

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#7. Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

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#8. Immanuel Kant's "categorical imperative" says that individual actions are to be judged according to whether we would be pleased if everyone in society took the same action.

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#9. While Sigmund famously focused on the unconscious (the id), Anna made the ego seem more important, particularly in respect of therapy and psychoanalysis. Her

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#10. If you have ever talked about having an "identity crisis" you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term. Erikson

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#11. Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

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#12. To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.

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#13. We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.

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#14. Burns notes the catch-22 nature of depression: The worse we feel, the more distorted our thoughts become, and this thinking plunges us even lower into black feelings about ourselves. Nearly

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#15. This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By

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#16. Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

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