Richard Schwartz

Similarly, countries obsessed with unlimited growth have little regard for their impact on the majority of their people, or the health of the climate and the Earth

The ‘them-against-us’ thinking that for too long has defined politics between nations, companies and people is profoundly anachronistic.”

I’m not suggesting that you have Multiple Personality Disorder (now called Dissociative Identity Disorder)

The idea of taking responsibility for oneself and not making excuses is as American as apple pie

observe thoughts and emotions from a distance and from a place of acceptance rather than fighting or ignoring them

Applied to human relations, there is ample evidence that our negative expectations of others have a strong negative impact on their behavior or performance

If you exile your vulnerable parts, they will destroy you

Instead, we assume that it’s part of becoming an adult to no longer feel intense joy, awe, and love

Other managers don’t want us to feel good about ourselves for fear that we’ll take risks and get hurt. They protect us by tearing us apart. They are the self-hating parts of us who will sabotage anything that might make us feel good

Too many of our basic institutions are based on the dark view. Take, for example, neoliberalism, the economic philosophy of Milton Friedman that undergirds the kind of cutthroat capitalism that has dominated many countries, including the US, since the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.