Compassion Power

03/07/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202504/how-we-turn-toddler-feelings-into-adult-action

The adult brain provides the reality testing the toddler brain lacks.

03/01/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202501/how-to-exorcise-your-hate

You probably have good reasons to hate. You have better reasons to find peace and self-acceptance, and emotional growth.

02/25/2026

What makes polarization intractable is ideological purity of thought, characterized by intolerance and perceived moral or intellectual superiority. Disagreement is met with pejorative labels rather than fact or argument. Ideology sometimes degenerates into mobocracy.

Ideology is inherently immoral, even when it embraces moral causes, when guided by the perspective that has brought about most of the evil in the world: “By any means necessary.”

02/18/2026

Never justify behaviors you want to change. Justifying seizes mental focus and increases the likelihood of repeating mistakes.

02/15/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202506/crucial-elements-of-meaning-and-purpose

Most self-help advice on coping with negative emotions makes it almost impossible to act in your long-term best interests.

02/11/2026

Two of the hardest things about recovering from intimate betrayal are knowing what you want and whether what you want is in your best interest.

Betrayal in close relationships takes many forms. This course heals all wounds.

02/06/2026

Blaming stimulates nature's energizer - adrenaline - to meet perceived threats. (That’s why we can’t sit still while blaming.) Adrenaline has amphetamine effects – a surge of energy and confidence, followed by a crash, with withdrawal symptoms - worry, self-doubt, or depression.

02/02/2026

The human craving for explanations expands knowledge and enriches life. It also inhibits growth, creates illusions, and reinforces bigotry. Because lack of explanation for negative experience raises anxiety, bad explanations seem better than none.

01/31/2026

Failure and catastrophe occur more frequently with overconfidence than with under confidence. Overconfidence underestimates the possibility of failure, under confidence exaggerates it, genuine confidence recognizes and reduces it.

01/28/2026

Dysfunctional attitudes are the major psychological barriers to a better future. To overcome them, we must unpack the autopilot judgments underlying them. Perhaps the most important skill for a better future is the ability to widen our perspectives.

01/16/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202601/suppressing-doubt-is-lying-to-ourselves

Only doubt can help us overcome our proclivity for the psychological underpinning of polarization (and the nemesis of knowledge): confirmation bias.

01/11/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202412/the-key-to-a-better-life

With genuine curiosity, we want to learn and understand, not “win” an argument.