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How to Grow the F*ck Up: A Guide to Humans

By Mark Manson

Learning how to grow up and be more mature starts with knowing what you truly value. Being an adult means sticking to your values, even when it’s not popular or doesn’t benefit you.

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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Harriet Lerner
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

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Harriet Lerner
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It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions.

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Harriet Lerner
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Harriet Lerner
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We are what we believe we are!

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C. S. Lewis
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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

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C. S. Lewis
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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C. S. Lewis
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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C. S. Lewis
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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C. S. Lewis
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The Courage to Be Disliked

The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness.

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Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
2025
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Self-Reckoning