A Thoroughly Modern Maslow
‘For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.’
Johnny Carson
The emotional spectrum runs from depression at the dark end to exuberance at the other. Think Eeyore and Tigger. And, like most spectrums, there are various shades of emotion in between. Most people live somewhere in the middle. They're ‘fine’.
‘Fine’ is synonymous with ‘average’. And ‘average’ is, by definition, what most people are. And, to coin a phrase I use in my school workshops, it's easy to be yourself, averagely. It always amazes me how much trouble folks go to attending to their clothes and hair. They ...
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