Thursday, July 12, 2007

On Defensiveness

Someone photocopied this article from "O" magazine a few months ago and handed it to my boss. Who then showed it to me. (Was he trying to tell me something???) Forget whose magazine it's in, trust me - it's a good read.

The title? "Wait—Are You Implying I Need To Read This Article?"

The subtitle: How to Have a Functional, Trusting, Relaxed, Mutually Satisfying Human Relationship with a Highly Defensive Person

My aha moment came with these two sentences:

The first worry ... is "I don't have enough!" Not enough love, money, food, credit, glory—the subject of our deprivation obsessions varies, but the theme "not enough" pounds away like a monotonous drumbeat.

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