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- From: 054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Matthew Simpson)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.psycgrad
- Subject: Changing of a person's ways
- Message-ID: <PSYCGRAD%92111009493078@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:38:49 GMT
- Sender: "Psychology Graduate Students Discussion Group List"
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
- 9 Nov 1992 13:18:41 MST from <mmartin@ACS.UCALGARY.CA>
-
- On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:18:41 MST <mmartin@ACS.UCALGARY.CA> said:
- >
- >Do you really think that anyone will ever change their ways?
- >Even if a person is forced to accept that the world is changing,
- >that doesn't mean that they will change how they feel. I think
- >that as they are slowly defeated, the fight will become more
- >intense.
- >
-
- The person may, as they are slowly defeated,:
- 1. fight and never give up.
- 2. slowly give up.
- 3. change over night and argue that s/he has always been the way of the new
- change.
-
- Options 2 and 3 may have the person actually change how s/he feels.
- The secret to winning the fight is not in winning the battle. It is
- in never having seen the problem.
-
- As someone's grandmother or mother says, and I agree, "You always pick
- your own battles."
-
- -- Matthew Simpson
-