Comments on: Ask Steve - Helping Stubborn People http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/ask-steve-helping-stubborn-people/ Personal Development for Smart People Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:25:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Supercharging Your Symbolic Mind - Pop Occulture http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/ask-steve-helping-stubborn-people/#comment-45634 Supercharging Your Symbolic Mind - Pop Occulture Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:58:01 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/ask-steve-helping-stubborn-people/#comment-45634 [...] It’s annoying if you’re the kind of person who likes to lie to themselves about stuff. But it’s really the only thing that consistently works, that I have found. Pavlina has some excellent simple guidelines for helping you tune into this source, and discerning true guardianangelic™ assistance versus the obsessive noise issuing from the egodemonic™ center. This is also tangentially related and is about helping stubborn people: When you lead a horse to water and it refuses to drink, pet the thirsty horse compassionately while you enjoy the water yourself. [...] [...] It’s annoying if you’re the kind of person who likes to lie to themselves about stuff. But it’s really the only thing that consistently works, that I have found. Pavlina has some excellent simple guidelines for helping you tune into this source, and discerning true guardianangelic™ assistance versus the obsessive noise issuing from the egodemonic™ center. This is also tangentially related and is about helping stubborn people: When you lead a horse to water and it refuses to drink, pet the thirsty horse compassionately while you enjoy the water yourself. [...]

]]> By: CustomersAreAlways http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/ask-steve-helping-stubborn-people/#comment-14300 CustomersAreAlways Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:53:59 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/ask-steve-helping-stubborn-people/#comment-14300 <strong>"Pet the Thirsty Horse Compassionately"</strong> "Compassion makes one see the picture clearly; when emotions overtake us, the lack of seeing clearly clouds our perception of reality and hence the cause of many misunderstandings leading to quarrels (even wars)." - Dalai Lama I often read St... “Pet the Thirsty Horse Compassionately”

"Compassion makes one see the picture clearly; when emotions overtake us, the lack of seeing clearly clouds our perception of reality and hence the cause of many misunderstandings leading to quarrels (even wars)." - Dalai Lama I often read St…

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