A well-written antagonist is dangerous. You start the book thinking, this person is horrible.
Three chapters later, you understand their reasoning.
Five chapters later, you’re defending them.
By the end, you need to examine yourself.
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You REDUCE crime by eliminating POVERTY. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You’ll start having ideas once again. You’ll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
HOW TO STOP BEING DEFENSIVE TO HEAL THE RELATIONSHIP:
1. Practice non-interruption: every time you have an impulse to interrupt, don't. Let the person get out every word they want to say, no matter what.
Do not correct, or set the record straight.
When someone's defensive, they block connection.
They believe they're protecting themselves, but they're actually creating distance in the relationship.
You can't build, grow, or feel safe with someone who's chronically defensive.
Defensiveness sounds like:
- "you always have an issue"
- "can't you just be happy"
- "I didn't even do that"
- "sorry you took it that way"
- "I guess I'm not the right person for you"
- "why even be with me?"
It's defensiveness.
Defensiveness is an urge to react instead of staying open to what's being said.
When someone's highly defensive they interrupt, argue, and dismiss your thoughts and emotions.
Why aren't the ice cubes in iced coffee made with coffee? Like they should freeze coffee and make coffee ice. I don't want half a cup of frozen water that thaws and waters down my coffee. Give me coffee ice.