RICHARD POWERS

Sometimes suppression is the only thing you can do to avoid an escalation. And sometimes reappraisal can cause you to tolerate bad situations.

But that said, telling yourself a more compassionate story about what’s going on inside the other person’s head is usual...

Sometimes suppression is the only thing you can do to avoid an escalation. And sometimes reappraisal can cause you to tolerate bad situations.

Telling yourself a more compassionate story about what’s going on inside the other person’s head is usually the best way to go. 

• Stories are more engaging than statistics. A thousand people dead evokes different emotions than the death of that one person whose story we all know.
• The only thing constant is change, and nothing good or bad stays that way, ever. However, one can never find out what or when the c...