Following the huge popularity of this post, article source Amy Morin has authored a Dec. 3 guest post on exercises to increase mental strength here. Cheryl Conner has also interviewed Amy Morin in a Forbes video chat that expands on this article here.
They don’t read lists of what someone else thinks are the hallmarks of being a mentally strong person? ;-P
Most of those are on my list of why I don’t experience stress and enjoy my life. I don’t know if they make me strong, but they way simplify and enhance life.
These can be taken a number of different ways. If you distill it down, you realize that liberalism IS a mental disorder:
1. They Don’t Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves
Victimization is the Democrat calling card of Identity Politics. Get on the plantation or else be eaten by Republican wolves. “Put y’all back in chains!” “War on Women!” “Bedroom police!”...
2. They Don’t Give Away Their Power
Socialism is slavery to the State.
3. They Don’t Shy Away from Change
But my daddy’s daddy voted Democrat and it was good enough for them.
4. They Don’t Waste Energy on Things They Can’t Control
“GLOBAL WARMING! ARRRRGHHHH!” “WHY are people still poor in this world?!!!” “Some nutjob just KILLED innocent people even though weapons were BANNED!!!”
5. They Don’t Worry About Pleasing Everyone
“But WHAT would the United Nations say about us?”
6. They Don’t Fear Taking Calculated Risks
“Personal savings and retirement investments could leave people helpless in their old age. Let Uncle Sam manage your money.”
7. They Don’t Dwell on the Past
“Did you HEAR what happened when people came to ‘America’? They stole land, raped, and plundered!!!”
8. They Don’t Make the Same Mistakes Over and Over
“Ferrandcare, Kennedycare, Hillarycare, Obamacare...”, Jimmy Carter II, the re-election of Barack Obama...
9. They Don’t Resent Other People’s Success
“You didn’t build that!” “White priviledge.””The workers control the means of production.” “All property is theft.”
10. They Don’t Give Up After the First Failure
11. They Don’t Fear Alone Time
12. They Don’t Feel the World Owes Them Anything
Bwahahahahahahaha.
13. They Don’t Expect Immediate Results
“World War II was won in just 4 years!”
Take the opposite of all those and you will have your average liberal.
I would never read a list of 13 anything.
Scares, depresses and nauseates me too much.
Mentally strong people can appreciate and celebrate other people’s success in life. They don’t grow jealous or feel cheated when others surpass them. Instead, they recognize that success comes with hard work, and they are willing to work hard for their own chance at success.
Liberals (Mentally ill people) on the other hand are very resentful of other people's success. And their wealth and riches. As a result, they try to tax and redistribute that wealth.
Can’t be liberal and “Mentally Strong”.
They don’t write or pimp blogs.
Well, I’m a little over half... better get mentally stronger...
The fact that I’m still alive says more about my mental strength than 13 of anything else.
Thanks for the post.
I was unjustly fired last week and have been sitting here feeling sorry for myself and very angry.
Not saying it will continue but something to think about.
They Know that they are Human too and are not perfect as this list would suggest.
Just a little nitpick with her terminology. I wouldn’t call it mental strength I would call it mental and emotional balance. People who do the things she lists are unbalanced and it is the strength of their minds that makes those negative patterns hard to break out of.
Yet another “author” telling us all what to do and how to do it.
14) They don’t actually exist?
Good list
Good grief. No wonder things are such a mess. People used to be raised on this stuff as in the way people were supposed to be, not some distinction like “mental strength”. As if it were something special. (I figured this was the meaning of the term, “values”.)
It’s kinda sad that someone would write an article about this as if it were some kind of revelation.
This is why conservatives have repeatedly failed
That is a great list. All true.
Bump!