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The Psychology of being an Adult

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Importance of Apology

When you apologize to a person, at that moment, you're very vulnerable. Genuinely apologizing and taking accountability is being real vulnerable. The anger that the person will be feeding is not anger towards me and my actions. It's a deep pain that they have towards their parent who was always right out of the time. At no point are the people behaving like adults. A childhood pain has been triggered, and we respond as physical adults in the moment. So nothing really gets resolved. There's no human connection. And that's always a risk when you apologized to a person. They might literally go, excellent. You're showing me the soft parts of your body. Can I have a

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