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Kain Ramsay
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Born
in Dundee, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2020
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Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
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published
2020
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3 editions
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Mature Minds Aren't Easily Influenced
As a child, I once heard a phrase that stuck in my mind: "You're so impressionable." For years, I pondered the meaning of this phrase, hoping to understand it. What was clear was that being dubbed impressionable certainly isn’t a glowing endorsement.
It was wrong to be impressionable - to let others influence your behaviour or change your mind. A person deemed impressionable would be weak, without Read more of this blog post »
It was wrong to be impressionable - to let others influence your behaviour or change your mind. A person deemed impressionable would be weak, without Read more of this blog post »
“Change only ever occurs when the desire to change outweighs the desire to stay the same.”
― Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
― Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
“However, those of us who are more inclined to feel inferior to others due to crippling shame and self-hatred are more inclined to feel superior than those with confidence. Why? Because superiority is bred from an underlying inferiority complex.”
― Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
― Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
“The faith that everything will turn out alright, notwithstanding trials and tribulations, because you are capable of making things work out because you have enough faith in yourself to persevere.”
― Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
― Responsibility Rebellion: An Unconventional Approach to Personal Empowerment
“People who master themselves live an empowered life: they don’t need to rely on external validation and their self-esteem and self-worth aren’t tentatively balanced on the fleeting opinions of other people.”
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“It’s only through deconstructing ourselves that we are able to rebuild ourselves upon a more stable foundation of self-acceptance and go on to lead more empowered, autonomous and significant lives.”
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“No truly confident or secure person ever feels superior to another because their sense of self and worth isn’t dependent upon a comparison. They had developed a self-sufficient validation system.”
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“Knocking people down a few pegs, verbally or in the silent comfort of your own mind, is an easy but artificial and corrupt method for building yourself up. Everyone with an inferiority complex has a shadow of a superiority complex buried inside them somewhere”
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“Both inferiority and superiority complexes are disempowered states of being: both states inadvertently depend upon other people to make the person feel special and worthy in some way”
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