The short story of how, if you're rowing a boat over a river and you hit another boat, you shout at the person in the boat how careless they are and why aren't they paying attention, and you're incensed and annoyed at their stupidity. Then you turn and look, and the other boat is empty and drifting, there isn't anyone in it.
I don't think I've ever stopped thinking about that story and how, even if there was someone in the other boat, I could react as if there wasn't, and things would be better.
Not a book, but once I'd read and re-read enough https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ articles to start to understand his view on narcissism and how it's an epidemic problem in the West.
I don't think I've ever stopped thinking about that story and how, even if there was someone in the other boat, I could react as if there wasn't, and things would be better.
Not a book, but once I'd read and re-read enough https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ articles to start to understand his view on narcissism and how it's an epidemic problem in the West.
Something like https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdow... from 2013 about the government shutdown, or https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.htm... from 2014 about why people are really so obsessed with Facebook and why we fill our home lives with work.