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A recent post of @MJ DeMarco GOLD! - MINDSET - 9 Dream-Killing Lies You Sell Yourself...
reminded me of a book I've read a while ago at my university.
Erich Fromm "Escape from freedom". I would highly recommend reading if You want to expand on the topic. Here's a short excerpt:
reminded me of a book I've read a while ago at my university.
Erich Fromm "Escape from freedom". I would highly recommend reading if You want to expand on the topic. Here's a short excerpt:
"Escaping freedom
As 'freedom from' is not an experience we enjoy in itself, Fromm suggests that many people, rather than using it successfully, attempt to minimize its negative effects by developing thoughts and behaviors that provide some form of security. These are as follows:- Authoritarianism: Fromm characterizes the authoritarian personality as containing both sadistic and masochistic elements. The authoritarian wishes to gain control over other people in a bid to impose some kind of order on the world, but also wishes to submit to the control of some superior force which may come in the guise of a person or an abstract idea.
- Destructiveness: Although this bears a similarity to sadism, Fromm argues that the sadist wishes to gain control over something. A destructive personality wishes to destroy something it cannot bring under its control.
- Conformity: This process is seen when people unconsciously incorporate the normative beliefs and thought processes of their society and experience them as their own. This allows them to avoid genuine free thinking, which is likely to provoke anxiety."
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