Why seek validation? Validation seeking from others means seeking their approval for your choices, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, values, and actions. The desire to seek validation stems from the basic human need to be liked and accepted by others. There are people who can not confidently make decisions on their own without the opinion of others because they are worried about what the next person will say or do we have a fundamental need to belong to our peers and herd and be…
My part in the pay it forward chain Growing up as a kid I never really enjoyed going to school nor staying at school, I would seize every opportunity I had to do whatever pleases me other than learning, the surprising thing about this behaviour of mine was that even though I never really enjoyed learning, my overall performance at the end of every academic session was not bad at all, on several occasions I even ended up being among the top five in the class. I was too young…
Is life truly unfair? Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls ten feet from its mother’s womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time and shakes off the last vestiges of the birthing fluid from its eyes and ears. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its offspring to the reality of life. In his book A View From the Zoo, Gary…
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