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"The pluralistic form takes for me a stronger hold on reality than any other philosophy I know of, being essentially a social philosophy, a philosophy of 'co'"-William James
It did. It begins no later than kindergarten, for sure. I used to be perturbed when I drove my young daughters through McDonalds (which in retrospect I regret) and being asked which we wanted, the "boy toy" or the "girl toy." To their credit, our girls selected the former as often as the latter.
And that reminds me... The School of Life says this about overcoming your childhood (easier said than done!) -
Understand the Past, Move On to the Future To an extraordinary and humbling extent, who we are as adults is determined by events that happened to us before our fifteenth birthday. The way we express affection, the sort of people we find appealing, our understanding of success and our approach to work are all shaped by events in childhood.
We don’t have to remain prisoners of the past, but in order to liberate ourselves from our histories we must first become fully aware of them. This is a book about such a liberation. We learn about how character is developed, the concept of ‘emotional inheritance’, the formation of our concepts of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and the impact of parental styles of love on the way we choose adult partners. We learn too about how we might evolve emotionally and, in particular, how we may sometimes need to have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough.
We are left with a powerful sense that building up an emotionally successful adult life is possible so long as we reflect with sufficient imagination and compassion on what happened to us a long while back.
Couldn't access this link. Can you copy/paste a bit of it, Art?
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It did. It begins no later than kindergarten, for sure. I used to be perturbed when I drove my young daughters through McDonalds (which in retrospect I regret) and being asked which we wanted, the "boy toy" or the "girl toy." To their credit, our girls selected the former as often as the latter.
ReplyDeleteAnd that reminds me... The School of Life says this about overcoming your childhood (easier said than done!) -
DeleteUnderstand the Past, Move On to the Future
To an extraordinary and humbling extent, who we are as adults is determined by events that happened to us before our fifteenth birthday. The way we express affection, the sort of people we find appealing, our understanding of success and our approach to work are all shaped by events in childhood.
We don’t have to remain prisoners of the past, but in order to liberate ourselves from our histories we must first become fully aware of them. This is a book about such a liberation. We learn about how character is developed, the concept of ‘emotional inheritance’, the formation of our concepts of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and the impact of parental styles of love on the way we choose adult partners. We learn too about how we might evolve emotionally and, in particular, how we may sometimes
need to have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough.
We are left with a powerful sense that building up an emotionally successful adult life is possible so long as we reflect with sufficient imagination and compassion on what happened to us a long while back.