By Michael Mendizza, Marshall Rosenberg — 2000
People can change how they think and communicate. They can treat themselves with much more respect, and they can learn from their limitations without hating themselves.
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Don't underestimate young people's power to change the world.
The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in distress.
It’s natural to get defensive, but that only escalates the cycle of aggression.
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When leaders lack the wisdom to question their convictions, followers need the courage to persuade them to change their minds.
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”
Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
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As humans, we all have a set of core values—the virtues and principles that are most important to us. While the first step is to determine what your core values are, it is the act of living in alignment with them that can create freedom and power.
There are several questions you can ask yourself to help you figure out what values will make you happy.
In a world that is constantly evolving and taking new forms, it can be somewhat overwhelming trying to make sense of this thing called life.