Chapter 6. The rot at the top
Convincing yourself does not win an argument. | ||
| --ROBERT HALF | ||
The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it. | ||
| --WILL FOLEY | ||
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. | ||
| --SIR WILLIAM OSLER | ||
All of us have specific ways of thinking and perceiving, styles of experiencing emotion, methods of subjective experience in general, and modes of activity that are associated with various forms of neurotic behavior. As indicated before, these unique ways of dealing with the environment are based on patterns that are deeply embedded, pervasive, and likely to endure. The “fantasies” or scripts that make up a person’s interior world – the stereotyped, well-rehearsed, constantly repeated ways of behaving and acting ...
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