EPISODE FILE 014 / COSTS: RELATIONSHIPS

How to Turn Into Your Dad by Swearing You Never Will

Why vowing to be nothing like a parent can keep their behavior at the center of your choices, and how to write a concrete alternative.

Episodes / File 14

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  1. 1The instructionI will never be like him.
  2. 2Why it feels safeDefining yourself against a familiar pattern feels like a plan for escaping it.
  3. 3What it costsYou keep the old behavior as your reference point without practicing an alternative.
  4. 4The correctionWrite what you will do instead.
  5. 5Your 24-hour testTurn one familiar ‘never’ into a specific response you could describe or film.

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