Eric Barker

That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Sigmund Freud said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

We cannot stop the waves, but we can learn to surf

“the Barnum effect.

The Barnum effect refers to the tendency for people to accept as uncannily descriptive of themselves the same generally worded assessment as long as they believe it was written specifically for them on the basis of some ‘diagnostic’ instrument such as a horoscope or personality inventory.”

People turn to crystal balls and tarot cards not for hard answers but for a story that gives them a feeling of control over their lives.

Emotionally, we want a feeling of control over the world around us