In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. --Carl Rogers

Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness

Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness

Sep 14, 2022-- "Years ago, when I had my first media interview about my research on humility, the interviewer was curious whether studying humility actually made me any humbler. She asked me to poll my wife, to see how humble she perceived me to be. When I solicited my ranking from one to 10, my wife gave me a four." More in this post that shares four ways to counteract one's own tendency towards defensiveness. (5582 reads)


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