Egotism Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/egotism/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:42:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Egotism Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/egotism/ 32 32 The Importance of Anticipating Consequences https://mind-at-work.com/the-importance-of-anticipating-consequences/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:42:23 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5129 People often assume that their actions will achieve what they intend and nothing else. But that assumption is dangerous. What is achieved may be what they wished, something completely different, or a little of each. For example, someone may express what she intends as a compliment but in fact offends the other person. Someone else [...]

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]]> A Reflection on the “Selfie” https://mind-at-work.com/a-reflection-on-the-selfie/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 14:14:45 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1643 In a 1940 photo a man lay on the Coney Island beach after being pulled from the surf. The mood was somber and the faces in the surrounding crowd showed concern for the victim—except for one face, that of a woman in the center of the photo, whose smile suggested she was thinking, “Here I [...]

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