Arnold Siegel, author of Autonomy and Life, says owning our life includes characterizing your identity, unifying your voice, and recognizing your selfhood.
Gravitas, Character, and the Emancipated Mind
Beyond the need to satisfy individual desire, our competence with autonomy is a developmental mandate of our nation.
Each one of us tends to struggle with autonomy because this freedom is not permission to do anything we feel like at any time.
Confidence Through the Thick and Thin of Circumstance
Nothing less than actual sustained effort is required to attain the substantive intellectual, emotional and behavioral skills upon which success with the American experiment depends.
Difficulties with behaving responsibly and with achieving confidence in our executive functioning produces disappointment, disenchantment and more.
Looking Again at Our Dysfunctional Ego
We set out to master the primacy of being who we are when we remove from the processing of our thinking the impress of a dysfunctional ego.
We set out to master the primacy of being who we are when we remove from the processing of our thinking the impress of a dysfunctional ego.
The Rich and Remarkable Power of Self-Possession
Studied, understood and managed, the American ego is a remarkable function, a tribute to the rich range of the human brain.
Studied, understood and managed, the American ego is a remarkable function, a tribute to the rich range of the human brain.
Lighten Your Subjective Load
Happily, we who study the philosophy and practice of behavioral sovereignty, very aware of Atlas' fate, have learned how to reduce the excessive load of our subjective burden.
Happily, we who study the philosophy and practice of behavioral sovereignty have learned how to reduce the excessive load of our subjective burden.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Unless our heads are buried in the sand, it goes without saying that respect is in short supply.
Unless our heads are buried in the sand, it goes without saying that respect is in short supply.
Fenced in, Free, and Flourishing
Autonomy and Life is a philosophy, a meta-behavioral discipline reflective of the substantive claim we are required to make on ourselves.
Some of us manage the conditions and circumstances of autonomy as a serious business that calls for a wide-ranging, socially conscious responsibility.
Atticus Finch, a Man Who Embodied Freedom
Much of the story from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, however, like the story of life in America today, is harsh and mean.
Much of the story from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, however, like the story of life in America today, is harsh and mean.
Philip Roth, R.I.P.
Roth’s subject matter was human behavior, all of it.
Author Philip Roth’s subject matter was human behavior, all of it. His protagonists wanted to be free and unrestrained but they also wanted to be connected and belong.