A common mistake people make while delivering criticism is serving to alienate the person they are critiquing. Making the people you criticize feel alone in a puddle of their mistakes is not an effective way of teaching a lesson. Allowing someone to feel alone with their mistakes discourages them from making the changes needed to move … Read more
This article delves into the challenging task of handling individuals who always make excuses and do not take responsibility for their actions. It begins by recounting a somber discovery that many people exhibit this behavior and provides insights into why excuses are made.
Readers will learn how to show empathy towards the stories behind the excuses and how to identify when the cause holds validity. The article also highlights common, improper reactions and encourages readers to debunk the causes and uncover underlying habits to make excuses.
Guilt-tripping is a manipulative tactic to influence a person’s behavior. It centers on manifesting a sense of guilt in the target so that their behavior toward the culprit turns more favorable. Guilt-tripping can have a wide range of specific end-goals, from ensuring a constant stream of attention from a new romantic partner, to providing financial aid to someone who’s less fortunate. The overarching goal of people who seek to induce guilt in you is to influence your future behavior in a way which is favorable to them.
This article aims to express the importance of viewing today’s happenings with the perspective that time away from them provides. In hopefully helping you attain an even perspective on today’s hardships, this information may also help you manage others in stressful times. A difficult, lengthy wooded trail becomes less intimidating once you’ve hiked it through. … Read more
This article offers a comprehensive guide on how to challenge opinions and introduce nuance to popular ideas that one may disagree with. By studying the landscape and identifying the silent majority, readers will learn how to develop a more iterative approach to bolster their thinking.
The article emphasizes the importance of utilizing those who are part of the silent majority wisely and how granularity can be a powerful tool to achieve nuanced thinking. Finally, readers will discover how aligning themselves with groups or labels can help them find common ground with others and get everyone on the same page.
This article is a warning to oppressors of any kind; victims of your oppression are sensitive to empathy, and will (strongly) bond over it. The tale of giving when one’s got nothing left to give is universally poignant. It preaches hope to the hopeless by containing an important lesson about love. The lesson contained defines … Read more