steven franssen
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First Feedback
People have a tremendous intuitive capacity inside of them that they lose contact with as “shit happens”. Most people have it pounded out of them by their teenage years through the incorrect, harmful parenting that is commonplace. They also lose it because of television (a huge culprit), social media, and public schooling. In adulthood they… Continue reading
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Thinking Your Own Thoughts
People without a strong sense of self have difficulty retaining their own opinions, reactions, and decision-making with respect to events in the world. They will follow the most certain person in the room. Certainty gives the insecure comfort because it lends the impression that things have been thought through, contingencies have been accounted for, and… Continue reading
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Shallow Relationships
Shallow relationships offer only shallow value. Most commonly, people seek out shallow relationships for a baseline level of comfort. This means that they have such little self-mastery that the predictability of idle chatter and distraction is preferable to the clashing voices in their own psyche. Watching movies, getting buzzed, or ogling at sports with so-and-so… Continue reading