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Public & private selfWhat's Going On Inside People Who Can't Show Anger
For people who can't show anger, it usually arrives on a delay. In the moment, your social self keeps the scene together, and the anger only shows up once you're alone. Four traits whose anger comes late, and five ways to use swallowed anger inside a relationship.
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Why Compliments Make You Uncomfortable
Compliments always land on your social self and its results, but you know every step of the process inside, so they sound like they're about someone else. Four traits that find compliments especially uncomfortable, and five ways to accept praise without pushing it away.
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Why First Impressions and Real Personality Don't Match
A first impression isn't wrong. It's you, seen from the narrowest angle. We separate the traits that show at a first meeting from the ones that take time, and share five ways to fill in the blanks a first impression leaves.
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Lonely Even With Many Friends
A full calendar and an empty feeling once you get home. Loneliness is not about headcount; it is about how you are reached. Three branches, and what to adjust in each.
Public & private selfWhy Is the Me at Work Different From My Usual Self?
Calm and on top of everything at work, then a different person the moment you get home. Lay the you at work over the you alone, and you can tell the strengths you can run on for a long time from the ones that cost you dearly.
Public & private selfSocial Self and Private Self, Why Do I Become a Different Me With Different People?
At the team dinner you keep the mood alive, then the moment your front door closes, you go completely silent. Here's why a distance opens up between the outer you and the inner you, and how to read your own distance trait by trait.
Public & private selfWhat 'Social Self' & 'Private Self' Mean
Gaming words for a main character and an alt have come to mean, in personality talk, the you around people and the you alone: your social self and your private self. Here's where the terms come from, their three uses, and why both are the real you.
Public & private selfKind to Everyone, Drained When Alone, Is It Good-Child Syndrome?
Always the kind one out in the world, yet drained for no reason when you're alone? When kindness hardens into a role, your inner self loses both its own tastes and a way out for its uncomfortable feelings.
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