Official Workbook: Read People like a Book

Recognizing people's "inner child" is another way to understand their deepest motives.

According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, the shadow consists of everything in ourselves that we'd rather not look at. They are the parts of ourselves that we conceal from both others and ourselves. Humans have a hard time seeing their flaws because of emotions like fear, panic, rage, and arrogance.

Survival overrides everything.

● Every decision we make is based on gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

When you know that someone is acting based on their inner child, it’s easier for you to refrain from being a "parent" to them. And the best part is that you can inspire them to become the "adult" they should be.

Humans have a hard time seeing their flaws because of emotions like fear, panic, rage, and arrogance.

When the ego is involved, it usually takes center stage and obscures all other considerations.

Instead of acknowledging that these sentiments belong to us, we project them onto other sources. We fail to acknowledge our own "evil side," instead perceiving it in the be

performance by placing blame on the teacher.
Repression
They have pushed the idea or emotion so far from their mind that they have "forgotten" about it. The dangerous feeling just disappears as if it were never there.

Denial
It’s pretty self-explanatory. The perfect example of denial is when someone dies and you refuse to accept that it happened.

Rationalization
The practice of coming up with justifications. Although the undesirable action or fact still stands, it is now framed as something beyond your control and hence unavoidable. A student who did not study for an exam may try to rationalize their poor per