The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Living
Julian Baggini, Antonia Macaro
Language: English
Pages: 136
ISBN: 2:00310768
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Based on their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to life's questions.
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be problematic just as long as it’s taken to be the opposite of pride. Go back to my definition of pride as involving a kind of pleasure we get when we make a positive appraisal of something whose qualities reflect on us. If modesty is understood in contrast to this, it could mean one of three things (or a combination of them). First, modesty might be thought to be the refusal to take pleasure from something whose qualities reflect on us, such as an achievement. Looked at in this light, modesty
there is another whose suffering is hidden behind neatly coiffured, colour-coordinated looks. Getting a haircut, improved hygiene, paying more attention to clothing might be the first step towards recovery for one. For another, progress might mean daring to walk to the shops with no make-up on. So it’s not really a question of what we should or shouldn’t do – wear lipstick, or Manolos. What matters is reflecting on the meaning such self-care has for us and the role it plays in our life. The
our convictions. The Shrink When we set resolutions that are in some way hard to achieve we often find ourselves backsliding at the first obstacle. Alternatively we keep going long after the goal’s use-by date, effectively pursuing what is a dead goal for fear of being a quitter. People get tied up in knots trying to decide whether to stick to things they’ve decided. They reflect for hours on whether they should make more effort, commit and complete, or follow the line of least resistance and
Inner Critic, Disarming your Inner Critic. But at the same time social psychology studies suggest that in many ways we’re a deluded bunch, not nearly as self-critical as we should be. Most people believe they have above average abilities, and generally suffer from at least some form of self-serving bias. For instance, psychologists have believed for some time that we tend to take credit for our successes and blame external factors for our failures, but when it comes to judging other people’s
with religion also means that people are likely to see faith as the main provider of spiritual needs, and fail to see other opportunities elsewhere. Could it be, however, that the reason why the spiritual tends to collapse into the religious is because there is something about it that just can’t be captured or expressed in secular terms? The suggestion here is that this is not primarily a question of stuff or value, but the unknown, the ineffable and the mysterious. Of course, everyone accepts
