6 Feb,2023 | Coaching, Library of Professional Coaches
William Bergquist, Ph.D. and Kevin Weitz,Psy.D. (Authoritarian Personalities) seem to combine the worst elements of each kind of personality, being power-hungry, unsupportive of equality, manipulative, and amoral, as social dominators are in general, while also being...
28 Jan,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
Trees, hummingbirds, snails, Stoicism, storytelling, Orwell’s roses, the crucible of consciousness, the end of the universe, and more trees. I used to assemble annual reading lists of favorite books published each year — never an objective claim of bests,...
25 Dec,2021 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.” “A purely disembodied emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his revolutionary theory of how our bodies affect our feelings just before...