Posts Tagged ‘ego’

Psychopaths are Social Predators

Monday, June 1st, 2020

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

— Robert D. Hare

 

Is this carrot strutting his ego? Psychopaths are social predators. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them. Photo © MT, 2020, www.walled-in-berlin.com

Is this carrot strutting his ego? Psychopaths are social predators. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them. Photo © MT, 2020, www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic and current events, people, places and food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.

 

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What Creates Healthy Self-Esteem?

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

 

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

— Oprah Winfrey

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Arrogance can be a cover-up

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

Arrogance is often the camouflage of insecurity.

–Tim Fargo

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Do you have a superiority complex?

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their “superior” self is a fiction, a cover-up, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

–Maxwell Maltz

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

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