Many of us spend a lot of time trying to understand others, why they are the way they seem to us, why they do the things they do - whether it's a partner or family member, someone we work for or someone who works for us, someone we work with, our neighbours, politicians or other figures in the news - in truth, the further they are away from us, the greater our propensity to judge rather than understand.
Posted on Monday Mar 15 11:03:00 GMT 2010
It's often an irresistible temptation to be drawn into the the apparent complexity of our lives when we're looking at our problems. And it is true that when we delve into our psychology our underlying beliefs are a complicated and somewhat unstable structure of acquired, often contradictory, fixed ideas about ourselves, others and the world we live in.
