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  1. Mar 2025
    1. In contrast, those who set lofty goals tend to live more accomplished lives.

      It's not completely convincing. Those exploring freely like a child are often happier and could go further. Very lofty goals could be burdens.

  2. Mar 2024
    1. integration and differentiation

      Two main themes of ego development: Integration and differentiation.

      The former means to reconcile different impulses. Differentiation is more subtle; it could mean adjust to different situations, experience different feelings, understand different people, etc.

    2. a liberal, non-authoritarian personality was not the opposite of a high authoritarian personality; anomie (a disorganized and detached social style) was the opposite of high authoritarianism

      Quite counter-intuition. Why's that?