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Luc Ferry: “Self-care or concern for others?”

2022-12-07T19:34:30.222Z


CHRONICLE - The words to the glory of egocentrism are not original. These are symptoms of the times.


In his book,

Les Antisèches du bonheur

, Jonathan Lehmann, an author considered one of the founding fathers of positive psychology and theories of personal development, invites us to do everything to love ourselves, to finally move on from concern for others in self-care.

And as always in this type of work, narcissism obliges, he gives himself at length as an example:

“Concretely, how do I really love myself?

First by deciding that I love myself.

By repeating it to me.

Looking me straight in the eye in the mirror and telling myself out loud that I love myself.

That I fucking love myself!

Yes yes!

Self-love is a practice that comes in action.

It's a daily job.

I practice the love of my person by carrying out daily actions directed towards myself, towards my body and my mind.

For those who still care a bit about the fate of others, for those who think that love needs otherness, even difference, such declarations...

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Source: lefigaro

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