‘Social Skills’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life

Human beings have one amazing power, but one power only — the power of choice.

A person always loses power when they fail to set and enforce reasonable limits.

When it comes to relationships with aggressive personalities, you can never give the green light to the conductor of a locomotive that has no brakes.

Neurotics hate to think of themselves as the injuring party and would rather carry the burden of abuse than see themselves as an abuser. Disturbed characters know this well. So, when they want to take advantage, a good one-two punch is to play the victim and then vilify the real victim.

Feigning ignorance is an effective tactic that manipulates the person confronting the behavior into having doubts about the legitimacy of the issue they’re trying to bring to the other person’s attention.