Why do we always take things so personally?There are admittedly quite a few viable and valid answers to consider. But, the one Angel and I have found to be most common through a decade of one-on-one coaching with our course students, coaching clients, and live event attendees is the tendency we all have of putting ourselves at the center, and seeing everything — every event, conversation, circumstance, etc.—from the viewpoint of how it relates to us on a personal level.
And this can have all kinds of adverse effects, from feeling hurt when other people are rude, to feeling sorry for ourselves when things don’t go exactly as planned, to doubting ourselves when we aren’t perfect.Of course, we are not really at the center of everything.
That’s not how the universe works. It just sometimes seems that way to us. Let’s consider a few everyday examples…Someone storms into the room in a really bad mood, huffing and puffing, and addresses us in a rude way.
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