Psychology

What’s really driving the way people speak, react, and respond.

One day my children will describe me to their own kids in three sentences, and I have started wondering, a little anxiously, which three they’ll choose

At twenty I thought independence meant needing no one, at thirty it means choosing carefully who I let need me, and I suspect at sixty it changes again

Thought by Carl Jung: “The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.”

Thought of the day from Carl Jung: the things that irritate us about other people can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves

The reason some people apologize before they even speak isn’t low confidence — it’s that they were raised to make themselves small so the room would stay calm

couple dinner table

The reason long marriages go quiet isn’t that love faded — it’s that two people have finally said enough to each other that silence became a place they both live comfortably

Research on influence shows that expert opinion is most likely to be ignored precisely when the stakes of ignoring it are highest

The reason we feel guilty resting isn’t laziness — it’s that somewhere along the way we were taught our worth was a thing we had to keep re-earning

The reason retired men often go quiet isn’t contentment — it’s that no one ever taught them how to be needed in a way that doesn’t involve a paycheck

A nurse told me my scheduled surgery would be routine, and I realized routine is a word doctors use to calm the person who is doing the math on her own life

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