What other people think of you is none of your business. — Unknown Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with … Continue reading
“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe … Continue reading
People who tell you what to do have no respect for you. In effect they’re implying, “You can’t think for yourself. You need me to think for you.” They do not CARE about you. They care only about imposing their … Continue reading
PASSIVITY leads to depression. Thinking of yourself as “having depression” fuels your depression. You don’t “have” depression. You think and act in certain ineffective ways, and it alters your mood in a negative way. Your challenge isn’t to “get treatment” … Continue reading
With liars, the issue isn’t whether the liar lies 70 percent of the time, 50 percent of the time or “only” 10 or 2 percent of the time. The issue is that the person lies. Because you know that liars … Continue reading
Leftists cannot handle freedom. Freedom requires REASON: facts, logical thought. Leftists only FEEL. All they have is prejudice, anger and a shocking level of hostility and hatred. Underlying it all is anxiety … a profound metaphysical anxiety they cannot quiet. … Continue reading
Loyalty is a rarity. Why? Because integrity is a rarity. And loyalty depends on integrity. The deeper issue: Most people are not true to their values; they’re not true to themselves. Most people, in my experience, don’t know what their … Continue reading
The Oxford English Dictionary defines masochism as follows: the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one’s own pain or humiliation. (in general use) the enjoyment of what appears to be painful or tiresome. Leftists are gullible individuals, in … Continue reading
Self-esteem and self-respect are so low in our society that an authoritarian regime hardly has to lift a finger. It can rely on the shaming of lunatic “Karens” and unemployed moronic 30-year-olds philosophizing in Twitter mobs from their childhood bedrooms … Continue reading
You cannot be psychologically healthy in an unfree society–especially in a dictatorship, which we are becoming. Mental health requires stability, reason, integrity. You need a government that will protect your physical self and property, as an absolute. Our present government … Continue reading
In dysfunctional families or marriages, an irrational yet smart person can manipulate others. He or she does so by making an outrageous claim, and then daring you to disagree — because disagreeing would make you more outrageous, unless you challenge … Continue reading
People often struggle with “revenge versus forgiveness”. They ask themselves (or others): “When someone has wronged me, should I get back at them? Or, instead: turn the other cheek and forgive them?” It’s a false alternative. Usually the most effective … Continue reading