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Erich Fromm

5 essays where Erich Fromm sits on the council. Erich weighs in on change, growth, settling. Read what Erich would tell you.

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Relationships

What Do You Do When One of You Has Changed and the Other Hasn't?

One person grows; the other stays put. Fromm says love must keep growing or it dies. Angelou says you cannot unlearn what you have learned. Wittgenstein asks what the silence is doing.

Erich FrommMaya AngelouLudwig WittgensteinChangeGrowth

Relationships

How Do You Know If You're Settling in a Relationship?

Three thinkers on the question of settling. Thoreau asks what you gave up. De Beauvoir says you pretend you have no choice. Fromm says you are trying to have love, not be in it.

Henry David ThoreauSimone de BeauvoirErich Frommsettlingexpectations

Career

How Do You Know When You've Outgrown Your Job?

Three thinkers disagree about outgrowing your job. Adler says you're confusing ambition with superiority. Fromm asks if you're in having mode. Musashi says you haven't mastered it yet.

Alfred AdlerErich FrommMiyamoto Musashigrowthmastery

Relationships

When Do You Stop Making Excuses for Someone You Love?

Three thinkers on love and excuses. Fromm says you are not seeing the person. Murdoch says attention is love. Austen says the excuse hides something about the person making it.

Erich FrommIris MurdochJane Austenboundariesself-deception

Relationships

Can You Love Someone and Still Be Yourself?

Three thinkers on losing yourself in love. Erich Fromm says love should not cost you. Virginia Woolf says protect the room of your own. Rilke says let the distance stay.

Erich FrommVirginia WoolfRainer Maria RilkeLoveIndependenceSelf-Discovery

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