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Category: Self Development
The Dangers of Being Too Defensive
The trick to a good relationship is not to go in with too much protection. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for …
PSYCHOTHERAPY – Anna Freud
It’s to Anna Freud we owe the genius term ‘defensiveness’ to describe how most of us get some of the …
Resolutions
Any occasion to improve ourselves should be seized upon: resolutions are promises we make to our better selves. SUBSCRIBE to …
POLITICAL THEORY – Adam Smith
Adam Smith was no uncritical apologist for capitalism: he wanted to understand how capitalism could be both fruitful and good. …
Memento Mori
‘Memento mori’ means, in Latin, ‘remember you must die’. Under this sonorous title, from the Middle Ages onwards, philosophers and …
POLITICAL THEORY – Karl Marx
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as …
How to Defuse an Argument
In the heat of argument, remember that your partner is hurt, not mean. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films …