Do We Work Better to Music?
Getting and keeping the right frame of mind and mood while working appears to have much to do with picking the right kind of music to play.
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Getting and keeping the right frame of mind and mood while working appears to have much to do with picking the right kind of music to play.
Assessing the character of a potential relationship partner and their capacity for forming and sustaining a truly meaningful and healthy relationship is no easy business.
People certainly can change, but for someone dealing with a character disturbance, the job isn’t an easy one. Here are four factors which make the difference for a successful effort.
Rampant narcissism undermines the prospects for genuineness and civility in our political discourse and helps desensitize us to the character disturbance which often lies behind narcissistic behavior.
Becoming a better person is hard work, and it’s especially hard when problems are always someone else’s fault.
Other people can send us negative, hurtful, or demeaning “invitations” to feel badly about ourselves, but it’s up to us to decide whether or not we’ll accept those kinds of invitations.
Taken too far, self scrutiny ceases to be a route to becoming a better person and turns into something else — bullying — which can be every bit as damaging when we do it to ourselves as when we do it to others.
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