I recently sat in on a lunch meeting where the agenda was simply “values.”
We were asked to talk about what is good and what is bad. The comments and questions that followed were unsurprising for Americans these days, but the group anchored itself in respectful listening.
But one member put on the table a list of behaviors associated with good motivations and others associated with “less than helpful” approaches to life.
Here is a list of those latter behaviors. If they were to be associated with a prominent personality, who might come to mind?
Addictive, acquisitive, prohibiting, conquering, authoritarian, egotistical, competitive, controlling, dominating, insensitive, suspicious, aggressive, self-preserving, hierarchical, isolated, absolutist, contemptuous, closed/secretive, given to pretense, comfort-seeking, divisive.
These expressions of personality were associated with fear-based, materialistic, defensive approaches to life by Demi Miller of St. Paul, Minnesota.