Unlike most of us, who normally try to resolve or defuse conflicts, people with high-conflict personalities (HCPs) respond to conflicts by compulsively increasing them.
“Our subliminal brain is invisible to us, yet it influences our conscious experience of the world in the most fundamental of ways: how we view ourselves and others, the meanings we attach to the everyday events of our lives, our ability to make the quick judgment calls and decisions that can sometimes mean the difference between life and death, and the actions we engage in as a result of all these instinctual experiences.”
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
“We all hold dear the idea that we’re the captain of our own soul, and we’re in charge, and it’s a very scary feeling when we’re not. In fact, that’s what psychosis is—the feeling of detachment from reality and that you’re not in control, and that’s a very frightening feeling for anyone.”
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
“Our brains are not simply recording a taste or other experience, they are creating it.”
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
“but dreams and myths are expressions of the human heart.”
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
“If you really want to understand the social world, if you really want to understand yourself and others, and, beyond that, if you really want to overcome many of the obstacles that prevent you from living your fullest, richest life, you need to understand the influence of the subliminal world that is hidden within each of us.”
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
― Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
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